RT Article
T1 ‘Are You the One Who is to Come?’: Epistemological Perspectives on Encountering the Judeo-Christian God
JF Perichoresis
VO 20
IS 5
SP 15
OP 32
A1 Ušurel, Lidija
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1814915230
AB 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.
K1 Intellect
K1 pre-cognitive a priori awareness
K1 Regeneration
K1 sense of the heart
K1 Spiritual Senses
K1 Transfiguration
DO 10.2478/perc-2022-0027