SAINT JOHN OF DAMASCUS – A TYPE OF A BYZANTINE THINKER
Abstract
Experience of thought and the concept of the author and of the creation
in the medieval age are not seen as autonomous processes, but as a part of practice of
representation within concrete, above all theological requirements and expectations.
Typical for medieval thought are syntheses in which philosophy is transformed into
theology, art into a mimesis of mimesis, literature into a praying practice. Various spiritual
flows of the East and the West gave birth to two types of thinkers: a byzantine one, based
on ancient Greece and the power of synthesis, and a western one – scholastic, critical
thinking and syncretic intellectual. Saint John of Damascus is the embodiment of a
byzantine thinker, who with miraculous ease re-appropriated and reshaped classical and
Christian thought heritage.
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