The presence of transcendence
Subtitle: essays on facing the Other through holiness, history and text
By: Bogoljub Šijaković
Contributors: Univerzitet u Beogradu. Institut za teološka istraživanja
Series: Contemporary Christian thought series -- no. 22
Publisher: Sebastian Press/Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781936773145
Subjects: Doctrines; Transcendence of God; Transcendence (Philosophy); Other (Philosophy); Holiness; Orthodox Eastern Church; Perfection; Religious aspects; Self (Philosophy); Self-knowledge, Theory of; Responsibility; Hermeneutics; Doctrinal Theology; Ontology; Christian philosophy; Ancient Philosophy; Christianity; God (Christianity); Knowableness; History; Philosophy
Other titles: Essays on facing the Other through holiness, history and text; Facing the Other through holiness, history and text
Description: "The essays collected in this book venture into various domains of philosophy, such as ontology and epistemology, anthropology and ethics, philosophy of history and history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and theory of the mystical, poetics and hermeneutics. The problems here thematized, which are brought to us primarily by the tradition of Hellenism and Christianity as well as life itself, are both traditional and contemporary: self-knowledge and knowledge of God, transcendence and paradoxy, theodicy and anthropodicy, sacrifice, violence, holiness, responsibility, decision-making, evil, guilt, repentance, forgiveness, memory, as well as: wisdom, suffering, good, the other, freedom, fate, history, the Balkans, war, rationality, and also: reading, dialogue, poetry, metaphysic of light."--
Notes: "In collaboration with the Institute for Theological Research of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-317) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: On the philosophy of holiness and responsibility  -- Predrag Čičovački -- I. Face to face with the Other.; title: Holiness, responsibility, autonomy --; title: On sacrifice and memory --; title: The care for the sanctity of the victim --; title: On the nature of evil --; title: Guilt and repentance --; title: Homo patiens: philosophy as wisdom from suffering --; title: On memory and oblivion: identity between ontology and discourse --; title: Freedom, dignity, good: natural law and anthropology --; title: The anthropological meaning of self-knowledge: toward the Apollonian precept "know thyself!" --; title: Knowing God and overcoming the distance --; title: The paradoxy of the mystical knowledge of God -- -- II. Face to face with history.; title: History, power, identity --; title: 'Open society', closed interpretation of history, responsibility --; title: A critique of Balkanistic discourse: contribution to the phenomenology of Balkan 'Otherness' --; title: War and rationality --; title: Revelation, creation, destruction --; title: Memorabilia: waiting for Easter, 55 years after 1944 --; title: On the eschatologicality of history --; title: The essence of St. Sava's legacy and its essential significance for us --; title: University and theology: the educational context of the intellectual history and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade -- -- III. Face to face with text.; title: Hermes and hermeneutics --; title: Reading (as) dialogue --; title: The paradigmatic and tautegoric nature of poetry --; title: The problem-beam of the metaphysics of light --; title: The ontological character of early Greek philosophy --; title: Plato redivivus: on Plato's unwritten doctrines --; title: Hermeneutist Gadamer Platonist --; title: Karl Marx with Aristotle's key in the wrong lock --; title: Hellenic gifts out of Christian hands --; title: Christ in the work of Petar II Petrović Njegoš.