The revision of the boundary concepts symbol and image in the philosophy of Maximus the Confessor in respect to the works of Pseudo-Dionysius Cover Image
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Преработването на граничните понятия символ и образ във философията на Максим Изповедник в перспективата на произведенията на Псевдо-Дионисий Ареопаги
The revision of the boundary concepts symbol and image in the philosophy of Maximus the Confessor in respect to the works of Pseudo-Dionysius

Author(s): Gergana Dineva
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Издателство »Изток-Запад«
Keywords: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite; image; symbol; boundary concepts; boundary; Maximus the Confessor; revision; icon; hierarchy; Mystagogia; Byzantine philosophy

Summary/Abstract: I would like to show with the help of the hermeneutic tool, which I examine – the philosophical concept boundary – the Byzantine thinkers' solution in the face of Maximus the Confessor of the well-known problem with the symbolical interpretation of the sacraments and the Church in The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy by Pseudo-Dionysius the Aeropagite. By Maximus is to be found one very specific for the Byzantine thinking dynamic asymmetry of the participation and of the indwelling of the energies, based on the unmeasurable difference between the intensity ant the purity of Gods essential energies and the energies of every created nature. Therefore we may say, that the perichoresis acts as a negative boundary, insofar it actually leads to the indefinable dynamic limit of essential energetic interacting between the finite and the infinite nature, without forming any conceptional understanding of the Communion. This prevents the interpretation of the sacraments purely symbolic. The dynamic of the anagogical symbolism of Dionysius is as mach strong as by Maximus, but it always presupposes the distinctive thinking, which has to separate the material part of the symbol and the several sense levels of the invisible part of the boundary symbolic integrity.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 53-70
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bulgarian