№ 2 - 2008
METROPOLITAN KIRILL
Orthodoxy and Education

It is on dialogue with the state, with secular society and with traditional religions that the spiritual and moral level of modern humankind depends to a great extent. It is nothing but dialogue that in today’s socio-cultural and political realities is the generally recognized and legitimate method of exerting influence over those who have differing views and persuasions. That method does not bear in it any threat to the preservation of integrity of a multi-cultural society in which people of different nationalities and religions are present, for it presumes respect for people of a different trend of thought.