The rationality of creation in father Dumitru Stăniloae’s theology
The rationality of creation in father Dumitru Stăniloae’s theology

Summary/Abstract: For Father Stăniloae, Orthodox teaching on the creation of the world through the divine Logos, the Supreme Reason, highlights that the entire creation is based on a logical order, on rationality, which is the very intimate structure of creation. Thus creation does not have an autonomous structure, but a theonomous one. The rationality of the world has its grounds or foundation in the everlasting reason of the Logos, the world itself being a plasticized rationality. The world was created by the Word through the word, and the human being has been the image of the Word. What arises from this is that the world is the way or medium of the dialogue between man and the Word. Pondering and knowing the world and oneself in its rationality, the human being comes to know the Son; or, in other words, he knows himself and the world through the Son and through this man reaches the Father, since he complies with “the image” of the Image of the Father; and everything is undertaken through the Holy Spirit. Advancing in knowledge of the world rationality, of the meanings that the Word has placed in it, man uses the materiality of the world according to the world’s reason, on the one hand, while, on the other hand, he enhances and enriches himself spiritually by discovering deeper meaning in human existence.

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