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- Title
THE LIFE OF ORDINARY LIFE: HESYCHASM AND IMMANENCE.
- Authors
SUMARES, MANUEL
- Abstract
Following upon the effects of modernity, the reguation of ordinary life relative to the practicalities of Human existence became a sphere of its own with no need of ontcloclcal justification. Charles Taylor's monumental works on modern identity and secularisation represent a valuable resource in appreciating a situation that may be Western in inspiration but is, in fact, ultimately global and, thereby, affects the potential of Orthodox thought, and, more particularly that of Saint Gregory Palamas, to make a difference. However, the apparent inability for Western thought to provide an ontology for ordinary life offers an opening for reactivating the potential of Hesychast spirituality to speak of ordinary life in ontological terms. After considering Taylor's contributions, we turn to Saint Gregorys critique of 'Hellenic error' in order to suggest an ontological revalidation of ordinary life through the enhancement of immanence and to point to its permanence in the Orthodox Church.
- Subjects
HESYCHASM; IMMANENCE (Philosophy); ORTHODOX Eastern Church; GREGORY Palamas, Saint, 1296-1359; ORTHODOX Eastern doctrines
- Publication
Analogia (2529-0967), 2017, Vol 3, Issue 2, p97
- ISSN
2529-0967
- Publication type
Article