STARTING POINTS OF WORK OF THE PRIESTS WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL ANOMALIES AMONG BELIEVERS
/VÝCHODISKÁ PRÁCE KŇAZA S PSYCHICKÝMI A DUCHOVNÝMI ANOMÁLIAMI U VERIACICH/

Andrej NIKULIN

lecturer, Orthodox Theological Faculty, University of Presov in Presov, Masarykova 15, 080 01 Presov, Slovakia, andrej.nikulin@unipo.sk, 00421517724729

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to familiarize the reader with the issue of supernatural revelation and religious experience in the Church, and also bring to the theologians the problem of heavy mental illness and related disorders of perception hallucinations. In the first part of the contribution deals with the essence of the revelation of the spiritual world in Holy Scripture and the teachings of the Church. A very important parts of the contribution are lessons of the holy Fathers of the believer's relationship to the revelations and how to properly maintain similar situations. Very often it is a revelation of hidden mental illness, the last part of this article deals with this issue and especially practical recommendations for priests - what criteria are to assess similar conditions, and what is required for this to take a position.

Keywords

Mental illness, hallucination, revelation, delusion, Spirituality

(Language: slovak)

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