REVOLUŢIA CAPADOCIANĂ ŞI ASPECTE PRIVIND TRECEREA DE LA GÂNDIREA GREACĂ ANTICĂ LA GÂNDIREA CREŞTINĂ ÎN EXPUNEREA MITROPOLITULUI IOANNIS ZIZIOULAS
The Transition from Ancient Greek Philosophy to Christian Thinking and the Cappadocian Revolution as Seen by Metropolitan John Zizioulas

Summary/Abstract: The current essay presents some aspects of the transition from ancient Greek philosophy to Christian thinking and of the Cappadocian revolution as seen by Metropolitan John Zizioulas in his two representative books for this topic, namely Being as Communion and Communion & Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church. The problems discussed have been organized in a number of subthemes, starting with the way the Supreme Reality is understood in the two universes of thinking, continuing with the perspectives on the relationship between Creator and creation, on the human condition, that of the body, the living world and matter and concluding with the possibilities of knowing God and participating to It and to the divine reality, subject that is greatly influenced by the perspectives on the questions listed above. As a presentation of Zizioulas’ theses, the essay reflects his insistence on the differences between the systems of thinking of the Greek philosophers and that of the Christians, as well as the author’s treasuring of the concepts of person and communion.

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