THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF SILENCE
THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF SILENCE

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a comprehensive analysis of silence as a fundamental ontological and spiritual reality, moving beyond its reduction to the mere absence of speech. In religious traditions, silence is approached as a privileged mode of access to the Absolute, playing a central role in Eastern religions, Judaism, and Christian mysticism, where it acquires an apophatic and mistagogical function. In patristic and medieval theology, silence becomes the condition of divine knowledge and deification. From a philosophical perspective, silence is examined within the dialectical relationship between word and thought across ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophical frameworks. In the arts, silence functions as a generative principle and a constitutive category of creation in architecture, painting, music, and poetry. Ultimately, the study argues that silence mediates between transcendence and immanence, grounding spiritual experience, artistic creation, and existential meaning.

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