Individual and Eros is perhaps essentially the most very important theological works to be released in Greece within the 20th century. It addresses the query of the way we stumble upon the last word truth we name God. Christos Yannaras argues that the highbrow ascent to first ideas that's attribute of the Western philosophical culture is predicated on fallacious premises. we can't come upon truth easily via conceptual wisdom. the data of fact isn't exhausted in its linguistic expression; it's obtained via fast adventure. Yannaras hence leads us in terms of the matter of data to a theological imaginative and prescient of union with the ultimate mode of loving self-transcending and self-offering being. Norman Russell’s lucid translation makes this imaginative and prescient available for the 1st time to English-speaking readers.
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