Knowledge of God – as an inner human experience

From the Old Testament perspective, wisdom is not man's ultimate destination, but it is the way “by which” we can reach God. Travelling through life with wisdom, man finds his true theological destination by dwelling in the mystery of the revealed word. Thus, “Wisdom has built her house” (Prv 9:1), living spiritually in people who discover in the mystery of the spoken word the redemptive work of Christ in the intimacy of humanity that he came to redeem from sin. This interiority, understood as the dwelling of the Word of God in the human heart, in its spiritual abode, is interpreted by Holy Scripture, patristic and philocalic literature, as well as by the liturgical prayer of the Church as an incarnation of the Word in us, which we understand it as a food of doxological words and the communion of Eucharistic Christ, Divine Body and Blood, Liturgy of God with us in the Church of His Glory, which is His ecclesial Body.

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Romanian Orthodox Old Testament Studies
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2024-08-20
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https://doi.org/10.24193/roots.2024.1.2
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Theology and Philosophy of Evil
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Knowledge of God – as an inner human experience

Cătălin Vatamanu
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Romanian Orthodox Old Testament Studies
Theology and Philosophy of Evil
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Knowledge of God – as an inner human experience

Cătălin Vatamanu
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Abstract

From the Old Testament perspective, wisdom is not man's ultimate destination, but it is the way “by which” we can reach God. Travelling through life with wisdom, man finds his true theological destination by dwelling in the mystery of the revealed word. Thus, “Wisdom has built her house” (Prv 9:1), living spiritually in people who discover in the mystery of the spoken word the redemptive work of Christ in the intimacy of humanity that he came to redeem from sin. This interiority, understood as the dwelling of the Word of God in the human heart, in its spiritual abode, is interpreted by Holy Scripture, patristic and philocalic literature, as well as by the liturgical prayer of the Church as an incarnation of the Word in us, which we understand it as a food of doxological words and the communion of Eucharistic Christ, Divine Body and Blood, Liturgy of God with us in the Church of His Glory, which is His ecclesial Body.

Romanian Orthodox Old Testament StudiesVol. 11(1)
"Ion Ionescu de la Brad" Iasi University of Life Sciences (RO), St.Tikhon's Orthodox University (RU)
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Theology and Philosophy of Evil
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