THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN ATTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

In this article, the author wishes to defend a fundamental point: most ancient and early Christian thinkers (from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas) thought that the human imagination as a cognitive faculty was a hindrance to metaphysical thinking, to theology, and therefore to the beatifi c vision and sa...

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Main Author: TATIANA BORODAI
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: St. Tikhon's Orthodox University 2010-08-01
Series:Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
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Online Access:http://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/1178
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spelling doaj-db19167696354cdb841b59b151b9aa532020-11-25T02:46:51ZrusSt. Tikhon's Orthodox UniversityВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия1991-640X1991-640X2010-08-013312335THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN ATTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF GODTATIANA BORODAIIn this article, the author wishes to defend a fundamental point: most ancient and early Christian thinkers (from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas) thought that the human imagination as a cognitive faculty was a hindrance to metaphysical thinking, to theology, and therefore to the beatifi c vision and salvation. Today, on the contrary, this cognitive faculty is considered to be a positive and very valuable one. The turning-point in the process of this re-evaluation is located in the fourteenth century, when a new literary genre of spiritual literature appeared — the meditationes vitae Christi. For the fi rst time, imagination was seen as a most effi cient tool for attaining a knowledge of God and the fi nal goal of man’s life.http://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/1178ImaginationUnderstandingFeelingKnowledgeSalvationPlatoAristotlethe StoicsPlotinusAugustineMedieval Techniques of Meditation
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Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
Imagination
Understanding
Feeling
Knowledge
Salvation
Plato
Aristotle
the Stoics
Plotinus
Augustine
Medieval Techniques of Meditation
author_facet TATIANA BORODAI
author_sort TATIANA BORODAI
title THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN ATTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
title_short THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN ATTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
title_full THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN ATTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
title_fullStr THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN ATTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
title_full_unstemmed THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN ATTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
title_sort role of imagination in attaining the knowledge of god
publisher St. Tikhon's Orthodox University
series Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
issn 1991-640X
1991-640X
publishDate 2010-08-01
description In this article, the author wishes to defend a fundamental point: most ancient and early Christian thinkers (from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas) thought that the human imagination as a cognitive faculty was a hindrance to metaphysical thinking, to theology, and therefore to the beatifi c vision and salvation. Today, on the contrary, this cognitive faculty is considered to be a positive and very valuable one. The turning-point in the process of this re-evaluation is located in the fourteenth century, when a new literary genre of spiritual literature appeared — the meditationes vitae Christi. For the fi rst time, imagination was seen as a most effi cient tool for attaining a knowledge of God and the fi nal goal of man’s life.
topic Imagination
Understanding
Feeling
Knowledge
Salvation
Plato
Aristotle
the Stoics
Plotinus
Augustine
Medieval Techniques of Meditation
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