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Sfântul Simeon Noul Teolog şi exigenţele cunoaşterii personale a lui Dumnezeu
Saint Symeon the New Theologian and the requirements of personally knowing God

Author(s): Cristian Florin Cristea
Subject(s): Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Renaşterea Cluj
Keywords: experience; vision; light; spiritual tradition; shunning of passions;

Summary/Abstract: Saint Symeon is well known as a respectable restorer and a dedicated defender of the authentic theology of the Church: trinitarian, ecclesiastical and existential, against scholastic, formal and intellectual theology promoted in the Byzantine Empire with no connection to the sacred reality of the Church. „Feeling” and „seeing” God, concepts intensely promoted by Saint Symeon, have made many people conscious of this spiritual reality. Saint Symeon’s thesis have deep roots in the doctrinal teaching of the Church, influenced by Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and theologically substantiated by Saint Gregory Palmas regarding the uncreated energies and the vision of divine light.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2023
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 28-38
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian