scholarly journals The Idea of Living in Religious-Philosophical Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 101-115
Author(s):  
Olexander Horban ◽  
Ruslana Martych
Keyword(s):  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
The Creation

The article investigates the origins of the idea of religious-philosophical discourse in the doctrine of the living. Based on the analysis of ancient philosophical thought and the subsequent, based on it, views of early Christian thinkers, a perspective is formed on the idea of the living as a special type of religious-philosophical discourse based on the principles of creationism, theocentrism and subordinationism. It is concluded that early Christian religious philosophy supported and affirmed the ideas of the value of the living as the creation of God, a trembling attitude toward it, adoring any manifestation of life, giving it spiritual and moral dimensions.

Scriptural Exegesis or Speculative Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-298
Author(s):  
Pablo Irizar
Keyword(s):  
Formal System ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Speculative Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Sacred And Profane ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Scriptural Exegesis

Summary Dogmatic debates in early Christianity shaped philosophical discourse just as Greek philosophy offered the conceptual tools to engage and, accordingly to crystalize early Christian practice, into a formal system of belief. Thus, in the recently-published The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics, Johannes Zachhuber notes that “Patristic thought as a whole can be identified as a Christian philosophy.” Following suit – though not without nuance – this paper suggests treating Patristic scriptural exegesis as an exercise of speculative philosophy, as evidenced in Augustine’s interpretation of the figure of the cross at Eph 3.18, where the cross progressively becomes a simple yet compelling paradigm of divine manifestation. This paradigm can be framed according to Augustine’s mature articulation of the ‘ontological principle’ of manifestation in s. 165: “From the depth which you cannot see rises everything that you can see.” By engaging in scriptural exegesis, within a gestalt where Wisdom, sacred and profane alike, merge in the incarnate God manifest in Christ, Augustine articulates unprecedented philosophical principles.

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

2011 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-505
Keyword(s):  
Integral Relation ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
The Image Of God

THOU ART is an interdisciplinary and christological aesthetics that theorizes an integral relation among Christ, representation, and the formation of human subjectivity. Through a critical poetics it addresses the space of difference between a theological discourse on the creation of human being in the image of God—understood as creation in Christ, Word (logos) incarnate—and a philosophical discourse on the constitution of human subjectivity.

scholarly journals Letters and the Topography of Early Christianity

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Lieu
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
World View ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Christian World View ◽  
As If

While embedded in contemporary letter-writing conventions, early Christian letters were also instrumental in the creation of a distinctive Christian world-view. Fundamental to letters of all types, ‘real’ and fictional, is that they respond to, and hence negotiate and seek to overcome, actual and imagined spatial and temporal distance between author and recipient(s). In practice and as cultural symbols, letters, sent and transmitted in new contexts, as well as letter collections, produced in the Christian imagination new trans-locational and cross-temporal dynamics of relationality that can be mapped onto the standard epistolary topoi – ‘absent as if present’, half a conversation, a mirror of the soul.

scholarly journals The Stylistic Category of Clarity (Σαφήνεια, Explanatio, Perspicuitas, Claritas) in the Eyes of Greek and Roman Writers

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 119-139
Author(s):  
Jerzy Styka
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Ancient Rhetoric ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Related Idea ◽  
The Creation

The concept of clarity and the closely related idea of colour were of great importance not only for the formulation of classical ideas connected with the theory of beaux arts, but also for the creation of concepts related to the an­cient academic and philosophical discourse, mainly via the use of light/shadow/colour metaphors to express and envisage the problems discussed. These were of special importance for what is commonly referred to as ancient literary aesthet­ics, which is the product of ideas originating in classical philosophical literary theory, practice and critique. It is to this very area of aesthetic and literary mean­ings of clarity that I would like to devote the present paper. However, the bulk of preserved testimonies, both direct (i.e. directly and normatively formulated) and indirect (i.e. resulting from the immanent poetics of the work), as well as the fact that they are multi-layered, compel me to narrow my analysis to the concept of clarity (σαφήνεια, claritas) as a stylistic category in ancient rhetoric and poetics, based exclusively on concepts expressed by classical Greek and Latin authors.

scholarly journals Paradigmas Filosóficos e Conhecimento da Educação: Limites do Atual Discurso Filosófico no Brasil na Abordagem da Temática Educacional.

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (176) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Severino
Keyword(s):  
Western Philosophy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Comme Point ◽  
Pensamiento Filosofico

Partindo da premissa de que a temática político-educacional constitui elemento intrínseco da reflexão filosófica, discute a situação do atual discurso filosófico no Brasil, enquanto marcado pelo fato de continuar construido sobre os paradigmas universais da filosofia ocidental, não priorizando essa temática nas suas expressões culturais. A análise foi feita com base nos resultados de pesquisa realizada sobre o alcance político-educacional do discurso filosófico no Brasil, concluída em 1992. Procurou-se explicitar as inspirações que marcam o pensamento filosófico atual no Brasil, elencando-se os pensadores que integram os diferentes modelos e destacando-se a contribuição de um representante mais significativo de cada tendência. Abstract Supposing that the political and the educational theme forms an inherent element of the philosophical thought, this work evalues the situation of brazilian philosophical discourse and its determination by universal paradigms of western philosophy. The analysis on the results of the empirical enquiry, achieved on 1992, shows ther is no priority of this subject in its literary expressions. The research tried to reveal the inspirations that characterize the modern philosophical thought in Brazil, listing the philosophers who belong to the different philosophical tendencies and standing out the most representative contributions. Résumé Ayant comme point de départ la prémisse que le thème politique et éducation est un élément de la réflexion de la philosophie, cette étude discute la situation du discours philosophique à l'époque actuelle au Brésil, en tant que marqué par le fait qu 'il reste bâti sur les paradigmes universels de la pensée occidentale, sans accorder aucune priorité à ce thème dans ses expressions littéraires. Cette analyse a été fondée sur les résultats d'une recherche empirique au sujet de ¡ a portée du discours philosophique au Brésil dans la politique e dans l'éducation, recherche qui s'est terminée en 1992. On a cherché à formuler dans cette étude les inspirations que marquent la pensée philosophique à l'époque actuelle au Brésil, dressant la liste des penseurs qui font partie des différents modèles et détachent la contribution d'un représentant plus important de chaque tendance. Resumen Partiendo de la premisa de que la temática político-educacional constituye un elemento intríseco de la reflexión de la filosofia, este trabajo discute la situación del actual discurso filosófico en Brasil, en tanto enmarcado por el hecho de que continúa dentro de los paradigmas universales de la filosofía occidental, no priorizando esa temática en sus expresiones culturales. El análisis hecho en base a los resultados de una investigación concluida en 1992 acerca del alcance político-educacional de eso discurso, procura explicitar las inspiraciones que marcan el pensamiento filosófico actual en Brasil, classificando los pensadores que integran los diferentes modelos y destacando la contribución de un representante mas significativo de cada tendencia.

scholarly journals Reflections on the City of Alexandria and the growth of the early Christian faith

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Nicolaides
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Theological School ◽  
History Of ◽  
Coptic Church ◽  
The City

The city of Alexandria in Egypt was and remains the centre of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, and it was one of the major centres of Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire. St. Mark the Evangelist was the founder of the See, and the Patriarchate's emblem is the Lion of Saint Mark. It was in this city where the Christian faith was vigorously promoted, and in which Hellenic culture flourished. The first theological school of Christendom was stablished which drove catechesis and the study of religious philosophy to new heights. It was greatly supported in its quest by numerous champions of the faith and early Church Fathers such as inter-alia, Pantaenus, Clement, Dionysius, Gregory, Eusebius, Athanasius, Didymus and Origen. Both the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and also the Coptic Church, lay claim to the ancient legacy of Alexandria. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641 CE, the city had lost much of its significance. Today the Greek or Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria remains a very important organ the dissemination of Christianity in Africa especially due to its missionary activities. The head bishop of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa, Theodore II, and his clerics are performing meritorious works on the continent to the glory of God’s Kingdom. This article traces, albeit it in a limited sense, the history of the faith in Alexandria using a desk-top research methodology. In order to trace Alexandria’s historical development and especially its Christian religious focus, existing relevant primary and secondary data considered to be relevant was utilised including research material published in academic articles, books, bibliographic essays, Biblical and Church documents, electronic documents and websites.

Creation

2019 ◽  
pp. 511-524
Author(s):  
Paul M. Blowers
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sacred History

Early Christian interpretation of Scripture on the theme of creation not surprisingly gave considerable attention to the Genesis account of the origins of the world, in part to counter the claims of Graeco-Roman cosmology, but more importantly to expound the latent theological meaning of the many details of the biblical cosmogony. But patristic exegetes were also keen on the fact that ‘creation’ in the Bible implied far more than beginnings; indeed, it designated the whole economy (oikonomia) of the Creator’s ongoing relation to the creation as set forth in sacred history and as requiring the further interpretative lenses of Christology, soteriology, and eschatology. Early Christian interpreters plumbed a wide variety of Old Testament texts beyond Genesis (especially the Psalms, Deutero-Isaiah, and the Wisdom literature). In their New Testament commentary they focused on such motifs as the subjection of creation to ‘vanity’, the work of Jesus Christ in recapitulating God’s creative purposes, and the eschatological renewal and transformation of the created universe in its relation to human salvation.

scholarly journals The divinity of Jesus in the Gospel of John: The ‘lived experiences’ it fostered when the text was read

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk G. Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Wolfgang Iser

The discipline, Christian Spirituality, evokes a new interest in Early Christian spirituality. What conceived spiritualities were fostered when the early Christians read the documents that were written to them and how did it influence them? According to Wolfgang Iser, a ‘reader often feels involved in events which, at the time of reading, seems real to him’. This article looks into how John describes and explains the divinity of Jesus. It also attempts to determine conceived spiritualities (lived experiences) fostered when the early Christians read John. The article starts with a brief orientation of what it means when a reader becomes entangled in the reading of a text. Then some mechanisms, as proposed by Waaijman and Iser, that can foster spiritualities are employed to examine the text, including the interaction between the text and the reader; the creation of images; the dialectic between retention and pretension and the filling of gaps.

The concept of the spiritual revolution in the religious-ethical concept of L. Sylenko

2001 ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
T. V. Khmil
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Ethical Concept ◽  
Religious Factors

In the development of modern philosophical thought there is the so-called "neo-religious Renaissance." He appears as a search for the religious factors necessary to construct a social being. The well-known representative of the Ukrainian diaspora, Lev Silenko, the founder of the Russian Orthodox Church, which he considers the national religion of the Ukrainian people, contributes to the postmodernist tendency of modern religious philosophy. The main provisions of which he laid out in the fundamental work of "Mage Faith".

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