Kategoria obecności w filozofii i religii
CATEGORY OF PRESENCE IN THE CONTEX OF RELIGION

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of the category of Presence in the context of religion. The scope is to show the phenomin on of presence as a fundamental category in the aspect of religious existence. Article mentions definitions of presense known in both classical and modern philosophy. Especially interesting for the work is the concept of God’s presence through: the word, the Providence, the world and the mystical experience. The matter of God’s presence is complemented by analysis of God’s secrecy often discussed in the religious literature, especially in the theology of spirituality. The text is featuring reciprocal correlation, dialectics of both terms and the consequences for the spiritual life. There are mentioned antropological conditions of the possibility for religious relationship, especially relationship in which the essence is the presence – that are: capax Dei (man’s ability (and need) to relate to the Divine) and quaerere Deum (man’s ability (and need) to seek for Divine).

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