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Man in Metanoiacal Dialogue with God.
Author: Krzysztof Leśniewski ISBN: ISBN10 3525573499 ι ISBN13 9783525573495 Publishing series: Lublin Theological Studies (Lubelskie Studia Teologiczne) Informacja o publikacji Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |
The first monograph published in the LTS series is a book by Prof. Dr. Habil. Krzysztof Leśniewski entitled Man in Metanoiacal Dialogue with God. The Biblical and Hesychastic Message of the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete (Göttingen 2022).
It is a work that is a theological analysis and interpretation of the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete, which is not only a unique masterpiece of the Byzantine hymnographic tradition, but it is a timeless liturgical tool for the spiritual transformation of man, which is deeply rooted in Eastern Christian hesychastic spirituality.
The hermeneutic method used in the monograph consists in a comprehensive examination of key Greek concepts and phrases occurring in the analyzed hymn in various contexts in which they occur, and on this basis creating a theological-existential synthesis. This method is based on the search for the spiritual and existential meaning of the most important terms and thus refers to the essential assumptions of patristic allegorical exegesis. The hermeneutic analysis of the content of the Great Canon in conjunction with the contextual analysis of the vocabulary used in it was considered the most appropriate, since it is the work of St Andrew of Crete can be compared to a poetic carpet woven from phrases from the Old and New Testaments, which are combined with existential confessions and spiritual indications, expressed in Eastern Orthodox hesychastic terms.
