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HOMO THEURGOS: FREEDOM ACCORDING TO JOHN ZIZIOULAS AND NIKOLAI BERDYAEV
Knežević, Romilo
Romilo Knežević’s Homo Th eurgos is an unusually bold and innovative piece of theological thinking. It has evolved from the author’s Oxford D. Phil. Th esis, which I was privileged to supervise and from which I learned much – as well as from conversations together that often went beyond the themes of the thesis narrowly defi ned. The title might seem to evoke a best-selling recent work of futurology – Homo Deus. If so, it might give the impression of being one more in a long line of works that portray human beings as applying the fruits of modern science and moral emancipation so as to become ‘like gods’, the prize for which Adam and Eve fi rst ate the apple. Certainly, Knežević (following Berdyaev) takes a high view of human freedom and creativity that might seem to place him in the camp of radical humanists. Nevertheless, as he tells the tale, this is not a story of human beings displacing and still less dethroning God but of their fulfi lling creaturely capacities that belong to our original endowment. At the same time, becoming the freely creative beings that God would have us be is also to help God become the Creator that God wills to be. We are an integral part of the dynamic process in and through which all things are made new and truly come to be in God.
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engleski
2020
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