O Božom optimizme. Príspevok k skúmaniu fenomenológie hriechu na základe mystickej náuky Juliany z Norwich
About God’s Optimism. Contribution to the Study of the Phenomenology of Sin Based on the Mystical Teaching of Julian of Norwich

Summary/Abstract: The paper concerns mystical teaching of Julian of Norwich (1342 – 1416) in relation with phenomenon of sin and human suffering. Julian was an English anchoress whose text Revelations of Divine Love became wide spread and influential in her times. Today, after almost six hundred years of silence, the Revelations are newly discovered and studied with regard to its rich and profound spiritual and theological implications and potency. The article focuses on the problem of sin which is qualified as pain, discordance, conflict, isolation, cognitive delusion and as such having no essence. The paper is pointing out a deep experiential discrepancy between essentially unlimited divine nature of a person, depicted by Julian, and existential limitedness which he or she normally experiences. In this context the paper further elaborate the notion of sin from Julian’s Revelations. She invites us to transcend the conditioned and limited existential horizon of the antinomic human reality toward unbound possibilities of divine goodness which may be found and activated in one’s own inmost being. Finally, out of this Julian’s phenomenological and ontological picture, one can deduce a really radical meaning of the Christian term incarnation.

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