Teologia naturalna – jej rola i źródła w antyeunomiańskim sporze o możliwość poznania Boga

• Authors: Kochańczyk-Bonińska Karolina

Title variants

EN

The Role of Natural Theology and Its Sources in the Anti-Eunomian Discourse Concerning Comprehensibility of God

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Basil and Gregory criticized dialectics on the grounds that it tries to usurp the truths that could only be known through Revelation. Nevertheless, the Church Fathers developed natural theology in which they deliberately used arguments based on sensual cognition, human logic or philosophical tradition, and especially on common notions. Although their terminology is often inconsistent and they use technical terms interchangeably, the context provides us with clear ideas of their theses. We should admit that as, far as dialectics and philosophy were concerned, the orthodox authors despite many reservations used all possible methods to reach the truth. They favoured the Scripture and the Tradition, but also respected such sources as sensual perception, human logic or common notions and preconceptions.

PL

Bazyli i Grzegorz krytykowali dialektykę, uważając, że próbuje ona „zawłaszczyć” dla siebie prawdy, które mogą być poznane tylko poprzez Objawienie. Nie znaczy to jednak, że obaj nie korzystali tak z naturalnych, jak i nadprzyrodzonych źródeł wiedzy o Bogu. W konsekwencji rozwinęli naturalną teologię i świadomie używali argumentów opartych na poznaniu zmysłowym, ludzkiej logice, tradycji filozoficznej, a zwłaszcza prawdach powszechnie przyjętych. Choć Bazyli i Grzegorz z pogardą odnosili się do dialektyki, a nawet filozofii, to w praktyce wykorzystywali wszystkie dostępne narzędzia, aby dotrzeć do prawdy. Uprzywilejowane miejsce zajmowały oczywiście Pismo Święte i Tradycja, ale nie deprecjonowali takich źródeł poznania jak ludzkie zmysły, rozum i powszechne pojęcia.

Keywords

EN

Eunomius; Basil the Great; Gregory of Nyssa; natural theology

PL

Eunomiusz; Bazyli Wielki; Grzegorz z Nyssy; teologia naturalna

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Naukowe Franciszka Salezego
• Journal: Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 49-56

Dates

printed

2017-11-30

Contributors

author

Kochańczyk-Bonińska Karolina

• War Studies University, Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

http://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2017.4.04

ISSN

1232-8766