The presence of transcendence: essays on facing the Other through holiness, history and text
On the philosophy of holiness and responsibility Predrag Čičovački -- I. Face to face with the Other Holiness, responsibility, autonomy -- On sacrifice and memory -- The care for the sanctity of the victim -- On the nature of evil -- Guilt and repentance -- Homo patiens: philosophy as wisdom from su...
| Published in: | Contemporary Christian thought series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles, Calif. [u.a.]
Sebastian Press
2013
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Contemporary Christian thought series (22)
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| Series/Journal: | Contemporary Christian thought series
22 |
| Further subjects: | B
God (Christianity)
Knowableness
B Ontology B Self-knowledge, Theory of B Orthodox Eastern Church Doctrines B Theology, Doctrinal B Transcendence (Philosophy) B Philosophy, Ancient B Christianity B Transcendence of God B History Philosophy B Self (Philosophy) B Hermeneutics Religious aspects Orthodox Eastern Church B Holiness Orthodox Eastern Church B Christian Philosophy B Perfection Religious aspects Orthodox Eastern Church B Balkan Peninsula History B Responsibility Religious aspects Orthodox Eastern Church |
| Summary: | On the philosophy of holiness and responsibility Predrag Čičovački -- I. Face to face with the Other Holiness, responsibility, autonomy -- On sacrifice and memory -- The care for the sanctity of the victim -- On the nature of evil -- Guilt and repentance -- Homo patiens: philosophy as wisdom from suffering -- On memory and oblivion: identity between ontology and discourse -- Freedom, dignity, good: natural law and anthropology -- The anthropological meaning of self-knowledge: toward the Apollonian precept "know thyself!" -- Knowing God and overcoming the distance -- The paradoxy of the mystical knowledge of God -- II. Face to face with history History, power, identity -- 'Open society', closed interpretation of history, responsibility -- A critique of Balkanistic discourse: contribution to the phenomenology of Balkan 'otherness' -- War and rationality -- Revelation, creation, destruction -- Memorabilia: waiting for Easter, 55 years after 1944 -- On the eschatologicality of history -- The essence of St. Sava's legacy and its essential significance for us -- University and theology: the educational context of the intellectual history and the faculty of orthodox theology in Belgrade -- III. Face to face with text Hermes and hermeneutics -- Reading (as) dialogue -- The paradigmatic and tautegoric nature of poetry -- The problem-beam of the metaphysics of light -- The ontological character of early Greek philosophy -- Plato redivivus: on Plato's unwritten doctrines -- Hermeneutist Gadamer Platonist -- Karl Marx with Aristotle's key in the wrong lock -- Hellenic gifts out of Christian hands -- Christ in the work of Petar II Petrović Njegoš A collection of essays on a diversity of topics, divided into three main categories: Face to face with the Other; Face to face with history; and Face to face with text.--Publisher |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 1936773147 |