Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.30.2.2
Animals, Silent Witnesses to the Mystery of God in the Thought of St. Ambrose
Drago Tukara
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Đakovo, Croatia
Abstract
The article starts with the fact that every civilization and culture testify to the meaning and value of animals in man’s everyday life and in devising his existence. The author considers only a few animals, eight of them, some in pairs and some individually, and only those walking on the earth. Each of them stands in the title of the paper together with prominent characteristics and forms one chapter. The animals taken into consideration were selected based on the opus of St. Ambrose. The Church Fathers used animals and their features to proclaim and reveal God’s mystical plan through creation. The symbolism of animals indicates a close connection between earthly and supernatural reality, primarily with Christological symbolism.
Keywords
animals; symbolism; man; Jesus Christ; mystery; St. Ambrose; the created world
Hrčak ID:
281583
URI
Publication date:
1.9.2022.
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