title: Archmandrite Sophrony Sakharov’s Anthropology and Theology of Light
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metadata.value: Pavlova, Lyudmila P.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-03-05T15:20:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-03-05T15:20:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Pavlova L. P. Archmandrite Sophrony Sakharov’s Anthropology and Theology of Light. Issues of Theology, 2019, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 501–517.
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metadata.value: http://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2019.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17174
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metadata.value: In this article we analyze some aspects of the teachings of the prominent hesychast
  and theologian, disciple of St. Siluan of Athos,’ archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov)
  in regards to the human personality and the perception of the human hypostasis
  in the Uncreated Light. Fr. Sophrony’s personalistic theology is based on the Sinai
  Revelation ‘I AM THAT I AM’ (Exodus 3:14), which indicates that personality is
  a universal, full-scale principle of the actualization of the image of God in man.
  Considering the human person as the image and likeness of the Hypostatic God, the
  elder Sophrony endows him with a dynamic component that can take both a positive
  and a negative direction. He is sure that man’s existential development should
  strive for the infinite completeness of deification — the maximal actualization of the
  personal principle in unity with God via hypostasization of the Creator’s uncreated
  energies. The human person is seen by Fr. Sophrony as having ‘two natures’ through
  perichoresis of the Divine and human natures. The dynamic quality of personal being
  is intertwined with its other characteristics — unity with other persons and apophaticity.
  In addition, the theologian, emphasizing the existence of the irreducible
  ontological distance between God and man, puts a bold sign of equality between
  God and man in terms of the mode of being as a result of assimilation of uncreated
  energies by the latter one.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Issues of Theology;Volume 1; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Archimandrite Sophrony
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anthropology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hypostasis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: uncreated light
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: energies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: deification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: personality dynamics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: perichoresis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: personality traits
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Archmandrite Sophrony Sakharov’s Anthropology and Theology of Light
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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