HOW CAN GOD BE KNOWN IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD?
HOW CAN GOD BE KNOWN IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD?

Summary/Abstract: The knowledge of God has preoccupied most of the Holy Fathers and Christian Church Writers over time, and in contemporaneity, this topic is also debated by atheists as a form of denial of the reality of the presence of divinity in the world. In this paper, I will try to show that the level of God's knowledge involves a problem of theological spirituality, a problem in which the perfection and transcendence of the rational creature is called into question under the infinite rays of God. The process of knowledge, as a direct union between God and the human subject through immanent energies, is basically the process of our deity. The act of union, the crown of the haric experience, is an act of knowledge through transcendence, possibly due to an aptitude of godliness. Depending on this there are two conditions under which the act of knowledge can be performed: the condition of the relationship, of the intercession, sitting within those created and the condition of the over-relationship, of the directness, standing outside the existing ones. I will also try to show what the originality of Tertullian and Lactantius, two of the first great theologians of the Language, consists of in the formulation of this teaching.

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