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Contemplarea abisului fiinţial
Contemplating the abyss of human existence

Author(s): Cristian Sibişan
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: divine existance; hipostasis; Incarnation; Creation; love; virtue; apophatism; abyss of human existence

Summary/Abstract: Contemplating the abyss of human existence. God is not an abstract being, an essence without love, but per contra, a Trinity of Persons who manifest their love one to the another. On retrieve this love in Son of God even after His incarnation as human being. Precisely, by the way of this incarnation, the human nature achieve new dimension - a christological foundation - assumed in God; so Jesus Christ became first plenary human nature Hipostasis. Incarnation impresses an apophatic character to the being, so, united with each human being bearer, Jesus Christ manifests the love and the consubsatantiality with His creature. In this way, man can share the new existence, a maximal one, in Christ, only trough virtues which activate at a highest level the possibilities of the nature. Virtue is the showing sign which indicates he man is impregnate in the most plenary way by the divine abyss.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 153-169
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian
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