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Pantheist spirituality and christian spirituality
Pantheist spirituality and christian spirituality

Author(s): George Remete
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: pantheist; spirituality; harmony; philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The pantheist unity and harmony are illusory and false, because the true unity of beings and of the Being is not a mechanical or objectal one, but a conscious or personal one. As the supreme value that man remarks is the spirit, then the supreme unity is the spiritual one. Experience shows us that actually the eternal battle of persons is preferable to the harmony of objects, because the latter is only the peace in the cemetery and the harmony of nothingness. It is not the object that unifies and harmonises the persons, but it is the person that unifies and harmonises everything, because the person does it with responsibility towards the whole universe, in the sense of Dostoevsky’s formula: “Everyone is responsible for all men’s sins!” Unconsciousness cannot be superior to consciousness, the mechanicity to responsibility or non-being to being. Therefore, the genuine unity can be achieved only by the spirit, as enhancement of identity, of specificity and of responsibility of persons to the maximum.

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 237-270
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: English