PERIKHORESIS AND SELFNESS AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGY IN CHRISTIAN CULTURAL TRADITION
Two antropological strategies (selfness and perichoresis) represented in the Christian culture are comparatively analyzed. It is claimed that these anthropological strategies are conceivable only in the personalistic paradigm, according to which a person a self-identical reality, a “center” capable of “anthropological openness” perceived as constitutive disconnection – forming person's constitution, person's identity structure as an anthropological topos, made with the sum of person's communicative acts.
Keywords: person, human, Christian culture, anthropological strategies, synergy anthropology, anthropological opening
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Issue: 7, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION
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