ПАРАДИГМАТИЧНИ ПУТЕВИ КА ЗЕМЉИ ЖИВИХ АВЕ ЈУСТИНА ПОПОВИЋА: КРОЗ ПОДВИГ РАСКРИВАЊА ЧОВЕКОВОГ САМОРАЗУМЕВАЊА
Abba Justin Popović; paths of divine knowledge; Christian tradition; hermeneutics of existential phenomenology; finitude and status of being

Author(s): Aleksandar M. Petrović
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Abba Justin Popović; paths of divine knowledge; Christian tradition; hermeneutics of existential phenomenology; finitude and status of being
Summary/Abstract: Abba Justin Popović’s paths of knowing God were prepared with an existentialist-personal and phenomenological method, by which he embarked on the interpretation of the great Christian tradition. He founded them in the spirit of re- actualizing orthodox gnoseological moments of that tradition, emphasizing their rootedness in the “light of the world” as the evangelic annunciation of the world of life. This largely coincided with the patristic idea of encyclical paidea or comprehensive education, which implied a dialectical approach to the science of thinking and language as a higher degree of preparation for Christian theology. With the profound passion and courage of a believer, his self-explanatory interpretation led both to the logical and ethical character of the very concept of the world, and to the eschatologically open “status” of the Christian being and life in the immediacy of its time, directed to the living path of truth. His great message is that finality is not the reason for surrender, but the reason for the struggle with misfortunes in which the transformation of the whole human being occurs, referring to the invincibility of the eternal Being of Christ, who by living love defeated the death in itself. Therefore, by virtue of his insights, we are allowed to enter the true way of human life, through researching the content of life and its meaning, and in regard to both the earthly conditions and eternity of the Kingdom of God. The exemplary nature of this thoughtful experience regarding the modern human being’s self-understanding is still valid, interms of a preeminent hermeneutical experience ofknowledge of thought and of belief.

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