Lysenko O. The "Tabor light" as a Semantic Orthodox Ideal of Man

Українська версія

Thesis for the degree of Candidate of Sciences (CSc)

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0416U003187

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Specialization

  • 09.00.11 - Релігієзнавство

28-04-2016

Specialized Academic Board

К 14.053.02

Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University

Essay

In this dissertation work the importance, the role and an identity of the functioning of the Orthodox Church were revealed on the territory of Ukraine in its uniqueness and identity. The unity of the Orthodox dogmatic, mystical and mental structures of the Ukrainian ethnos was established through the understanding of universal and national essence of Orthodoxy, resulting in the Ukrainian Orthodoxy and it is understood as defining the meaning of the religious factor in the field of Ukrainian culture for the past thousand years. The urgency of the appeal to the dogmatic and mystical structures of the Orthodox spiritual experience were mentioned as the basis of spiritual culture of the Ukrainian people. The author has shown the original installation of the Orthodox worldview, revealed the originality and specificity of mystical practice. This paper proves the semantic centrality of "the light of Tabor" in the whole system of Orthodox dogmatics through the prism of Nicaea-Constantinople symbol of faith and its value in the formation of the Orthodox ideal of man. The dissertation explores a comprehensive and many-sided problem of "the Tabor light as a meaning or an idea in a context of deification", finds its place in the mystic of Orthodoxy, analyzes this issue in such items: by birth; by nature; on the transformation, via, almost inseparable from each other and divided into aspects: a) as such, objective - by nature; b) as objective in subjective - the manifestation in man; c) as subjective in objective - change, transformation, the deification of man himself in the transforming action of the divine light.

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