‘Are You the One Who is to Come?’: Epistemological Perspectives on Encountering the Judeo-Christian God

Gaining an insight on how the human perceptive apparatus has the ability to discern between the worlds, physical, divine and demonic, has intrigued many theological minds throughout the history. The concept of ‘spiritual senses’, developed in the patristic period, offers a platform for the debate on...

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Main Author: Ušurel, Lidija (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sciendo, De Gruyter 2022
In: Perichoresis
Year: 2022, Volume: 20, Issue: 5, Pages: 15-32
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
KAA Church history
NBE Anthropology
VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy
Further subjects:B Regeneration
B Spiritual Senses
B Intellect
B sense of the heart
B pre-cognitive a priori awareness
B Transfiguration
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Summary:Gaining an insight on how the human perceptive apparatus has the ability to discern between the worlds, physical, divine and demonic, has intrigued many theological minds throughout the history. The concept of ‘spiritual senses’, developed in the patristic period, offers a platform for the debate on the intricate role that sensorial, psychological and spiritual skills play in perceiving the transcendent world. This paper argues that an encounter with the Judeo-Christian God presupposes, besides an innate spiritual, a priori, pre-cognitive consciousness regarding the existence of the divine, also a wholistic animation, regeneration and transfiguration of the human perceptive and psychological apparatus, through sanctification by the work of the Word and the Holy Spirit, in the community of believers.
ISSN:2284-7308
Contains:Enthalten in: Perichoresis
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0027