SAINT NICHOLAS CABASILAS AND HIS WORK "LIFE IN CHRIST"
/SVÄTÝ NIKOLAJ KABASILA A JEHO DIELO „ŽIVOT V CHRISTU“/

Stefan SAK

lecturer, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Presov in Presov, Masarykova 15, 080 01 Presov, Slovakia, stefan.sak@unipo.sk, 00421517724729

Abstract

Saint Nicholas Cabasilas lived in the period of spiritual fight, which in principle consist in fight of orthodox tradition of East with Western tradition where the rationalism was to prevail. Saint Nicholas Cabasilas was fantastic mystagogue which had a deep bases of orthodox faith, spiritual and secular education. He was skilled in spiritual fights, based with patristic tradition and he knew the issue and philosophic streams of that period on which he reacted his own way. he did'n go to the open fight with enemies and opponents of the Orthodoxy as the Saint Gregory Palamas did, but rather worked in silence to build up fellowship of believers of Christ's Church, which was exposed to the danger of rationalism and anthropocentrism. As his secular education was high level based he found particular secular terminology by which he underlined that knowing the God is empirical and we get it by saint mysteries. In this autonomic humanism the reborned man is confronted with God's Blessing, the man living in Christ even in this life is enjoying the eternal beatitude.

Keywords

Mystagogy, Hesychasm, Church, Eucharist, nipsis, patristic

(Language: slovak)

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