Čovjekova spoznaja Boga i svijeta na primjeru svetog Efrema Sirskog
Human Cognition of God and the World in the Example of Saint Ephrem the Syrian

Summary/Abstract: The paper brings three hymns by Saint Ephrem the Syrian presenting some features of his understanding the relationship between God and human beings. Christian faith in the Syriac tradition has been articulated through gradual encounters of cultures, languages and theological debates of the first centuries. In such an environment, the ways of reflection about reaching the Truth (i.e., God) within the Syriac milieu developed in a different way than the ways developing within the Greek and Latin theological tradition. In order to avoid definitions of terms and relationships with God, early Syriac writers used poetry as a tool for philosophical and theological reasoning. In that sense, the relation to what they considered as incomprehensible takes for them both mystical and intellectual outlook. The key representative of such theology that articulates the relationship between faith and reason via prayer is Saint Ephrem the Syrian. His theological reasoning and commentaries on the Scriptures were taken as guidelines for generations of Syriac writers during centuries that followed him.

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