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REPERE FENOMENOLOGICE ÎN ISIHASM
PHEOMENOLOGICAL LANDMARKS IN HESYCHASM

Author(s): Petru Dunca
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: Hesychasm; prayer of the heart; epiphanic light; sacred;

Summary/Abstract: The object of this paper is the field of the phenomenology of the sacred which enters into the research framework of religious anthropology. This paper attempts a historiographical opening regarding the inception of hesychasm, the founders of this movement being John of the Ladder, Saint John Cassian, Gregory Palamas, St. Maximus the Confessor. Hesychasm involves a praxis: the ascesis, the prayer of the heart, light as epiphanic essence. Hesychasm has a strong soteriological dimension. The paper analizes the constants of Romanian hesychasm, its elements of continuity.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 393-398
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian
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