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Man in Metanoiacal Dialogue with God
The Biblical and Hesychastic Message of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, Lublin Theological Studies 1
ISBN/EAN: 9783525573495
Umbreit-Nr.: 6320613
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 318 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 14.11.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
- Zusatztext
- This work is a theological analysis and interpretation of the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete. The hermeneutic method used in the monograph consists in a comprehensive examination of key Greek concepts and phrases occurring in the analysed hymn in various contexts in which they occur, and on this basis creating a theological-existential synthesis. This method is based on the search for the spiritual and existential meaning of the most important terms and thus refers to the essential assumptions of patristic allegorical exegesis. The hermeneutic analysis of the content of the Great Canon in conjunction with the contextual analysis of the vocabulary used in it was considered the most appropriate, since it is the work of St Andrew of Crete can be compared to a poetic carpet woven from phrases from the Old and New Testament, which are combined with existential confessions and spiritual indications, expressed in Eastern Orthodox hesychastic terms.
- Kurztext
- The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete - a timeless liturgical tool for the spiritual transformation of man
- Autorenportrait
- Prof. Dr. Habil. Krzysztof Lesniewski (1960) is a Polish theologian. Since 1996, an employee of the Faculty of Theology in the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and since 2008 the head of the Chair of Orthodox Theology at the same university. He is a member of the European Society for Ecumenical Research "Societas Oecumenica", the International Ecumenical Fellowship, Societas Scientiarum Internationalis "Fides et Ratio". The main areas of his research: theological anthropology, spirituality of the Christian East, hesychastic diagnosis and therapy, and thanatology. He is author of four books (translated also into French, Spanish, and Lithuanian) and more than one hundred articles and chapters on Orthodox theology and spirituality.
- Schlagzeile
- The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete is not only a unique masterpiece of the Byzantine hymnographic tradition, but it is a timeless liturgical tool for the spiritual transformation of man, which is deeply rooted in Eastern Christian hesychastic spirituality.