Ioan DURA, Rudian BORCAN, Ştefan LAZĂR, Petre PANDELE, Ion APOSTU - Identity and Continuity - Sources of Byzantine Philosophy in Patristic Theology

Ioan DURA, Rudian BORCAN, Ştefan LAZĂR, Petre PANDELE, Ion APOSTU

Faculty of Theology Ovidius University of Constanța, ROMANIA

Abstract:

The analysis of a spirituality, such as the Byzantine one, and the revealing of the aspects that mark the profile of philosophy within this horizon could represent for the postmodern human being a necessity in understanding the dynamics of Eastern Christianity. In a culture dominated by reactions to previous philosophical systems, of postmodernist deconstructivism, a rediscovery of what we can call “Byzantine philosophy”, as a successor of the evangelical message, specified and developed within the patristic theology and accessible in the form of a completely spiritual philosophical discourse. This is the main aim of the article: to explore the sources of Byzantine philosophy in the theology of Saint John Chrysostom

Keywords:

Byzantine philosophy, Patristic theology, Saint John Chrysostom, knowledge

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