The neo-platonic idea of procession and return as a structural rule of expressing theological truths
and its deconstructional reinterpretation Cover Image

Neoplatońska idea wyjścia i powrotu jako strukturalna zasada wyrażania prawd teologicznych i jej dekonstrukcyjna reinterpretacja
The neo-platonic idea of procession and return as a structural rule of expressing theological truths and its deconstructional reinterpretation

Author(s): Jan Strumiłowski OCist
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Systematic Theology, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II - Wydział Teologii
Keywords: theo-ontology; neo-platonism; deconstruction; differences; Trinity; creation; salvation

Summary/Abstract: Every age requires that theology seek such a language that would allow the expression of the revealed truths adequately to the way of thinking of contemporary people. That is why theology benefits from the current philosophy. New philosophical tendencies however, expressing the way of thinking of a modern man, may raise doubts as to their theological contributes. It is so because e.g. some philosophical currents question previous philosophical narrations which may raise concerns that they controvert simultaneously the theological systems based upon them. This situation is particularly visible actually, when one asks about the legitimacy of the use of postmodernist philosophies in the sphere of theology. Nevertheless, there is a possibility of transposing (translating) of the basic categories of traditional philosophies and their theological implications to the categories of new and unverified philosophical systems and this possibility proves the adequacy mentioned above. The present article attempts to verify whether the basic categories of deconstruction may be compatible with the categories built upon the Neo-platonic philosophy.

  • Issue Year: 10/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 129-140
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish