The paper analyzes the approach of St Porphyry Kavsokalivit to ecclesiological issues, in particular his central statement, “The Church is eternal and uncreated”. An attempt determine origins logical justification this concept made. emergence Porphyry’s unusual theological formula relates literal interpretation New Testament metaphor as Body Christ (Eph 1:23, 1 Cor 12). A specific feature disco...

Lviv is well known for its large museums. These museums preserve and continue the centuries-old traditions of museology in western Ukrainian lands. The collections funds exceed hundreds thousands preservation items. However, there are dozens other museum institutions city, less to general public, particular university Their formation closely related history these universities or institutes. An ...

The category of exemplarity, which holds a central place in Bonaventure’s thought, is in many ways a certain type of solution to the problem of the many and the one. Bonaventure’s account of the relationship between the created many and the uncreated original on which they are all based is in many ways like the account that Augustine gives; but he both greatly expands upon the Augustinian accou...

Divine attributes and their relation to essence is one of the most fundamental theological issues in Islamic world that Qur'anic verses this regard have led its emergence among Muslim thinkers. Meanwhile, Ash'arites believe divine positiveattributes are different fromessence uncreated time, they various arguments due comparing present with absent, carry attributeson each other on essence, God. ...

Given the calamities involved in climate change and impact it is having – will continue to have, on lives driven towards subsistence what can be said about goodness of creation? This essay explores how privileged theologians might rethink notion common good a situation where majority are under-privileged. It argues for need imaginative investment develop empathy, not sympathy; listen ways that ...

This article examines the definitions of place or location (topos) and as a consequence, space, in Byzantine philosophy, from Maximos Confessor to Photios. These philosophers draw, on one hand, Aristotelian, Platonic, Neoplatonic sources, other Judeo-Christian tradition. Firstly, sets out novel definition which is conceptually inseparable time, needed for substances exist, boundary between crea...

according to mulla sadra in his famous work, al-asfar , god’s pre-knowledge is a set of epistemic forms which are (1) inseparable from his essence, (2) uncreated, (3) beyond the universe, (4) devoid of real possibility, (5) eternal per se, and (6) extant by his extance. tabatabayi in nihayat al-hilmah believes that the term, “inseparable”, in (1) does not mean “out of essence”; otherwise, (1) w...

The present study aims to capitalise on Saint Sophrony Sakharov’s theological/mystical view of experiencing the divine Light, which Essex Abbot construes as an aspiration be pursued by any Christian, not only spiritual elites. For this reason, experience, and exhortations Silouan’s disciple believer’s partaking in God’s uncreated Light can become for contemporary man a vade mecum adapted requir...

The present paper examines the Eckhartian motives in Derrida's critique of Levinas' concept of the "Other". The focus is put on the Husserlian concept of alter ego that is at the core of the debate between Levinas and Derrida. Against Levinas, Derrida argues that alter is not an epithet that expresses a mere accidental modification of the ego, but an indicator of radical exteriority. Interestin...