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An Apologetical Approach regarding the Religious Feeling
An Apologetical Approach regarding the Religious Feeling

Author(s): Ioniţă Apostolache
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Systematic Theology, Pastoral Theology, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Alexandru and Aristia Aman Foundation
Keywords: Jesus Christ; Apologetic Theology; Christian Church; Jesus Christ; Apologetic Theology; Christian Church; Old Testament; New Testament; Religious Feeling

Summary/Abstract: The religious feeling represents the first step in the process of knowing God. In our study we have tried to analyze apologetically the human predisposition to the divine reality. Our main interest was to demonstrate the necessities of the religious human being in their process of self-discovery. In this regard, the feeling of religious belonging is very important. Therefore, the moral law is the starting point in the divine knowledge of the human consciousness. In the process of revelation God gives the Old Testament to the Jewish people. Furthermore, when the Logos has come in the world the divine knowledge started to be more straightforward and the religious feeling acquired a Christological di-mension. Finally, the religious feeling demonstrates a beautiful process of an ontological discovery in Christ of all human race. In conclusion, our study is an apologetic debate about how to reestablish the conceptual harmony between theology, philosophy, culture and science in the process of knowing God.

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 93-105
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English