Misterium czasu w myśli patrystycznej Kościoła prawosławnego a kalendarz liturgiczny

• Authors: Aleksy Kucy

Title variants

EN

The mystery of time Eastern Patristic Thought and Orthodox Theology and the liturgical calendar problem

Abstracts

EN

Time as a subject of philosophico-theological investigations has always been a quasi mystery, difficult to be explained in an exhaustive way because of its relativity to the other creation, and submitting only to the will of its Creator. Linear time can seemingly easily be described in terms of movement and events in the material world occurring as a result of a continually changing reality, but eonic time – or using the terminology applied by St Maxim the Believer – angelic time, apart from the scarce theological statements remains an unknown value, a reality that will only be revealed in the new existential dimension. In this context the sanctification of the mystery of time by the Incarnation of God the Word acquires a concrete sense and simultaneously substantiates the appearance of the liturgical calendar as a living thread weaved from the sanctified links by the Holy Spirit, systematically formed in a cyclically occurring order of dates and sacred events attached to them. The significance of the calendar for the mystic life of the Church that comes from the fact described above shows its importance and at the same time a need to eliminate any dissonance in the ecclesiastical body that occurs due to the functioning of two different systems of counting in the Orthodox Church, namely the Julian system and the New-Julian system.

Keywords

PL

czas; misterium; czas linearny; czas eoniczny; kalendarz liturgiczny

• Publisher: Akademia Supraska
• Journal: Latopisy Akademii Supraskiej
• Year: 2013
• Volume: Kalendarz w życiu Cerkwi i wspólnoty
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 69-75

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Aleksy Kucy

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2171312