Pojam "lijeka" u bizantskoj tradiciji: filozofsko-teološki aspekti

Authors

  • Boris B. Brajović

Abstract

The issue of the relation of bioethics and theology is a part of long and intellectually preg-nant tension in western anthropological discourse. Theological relevance will remain in the very basis and question of "life". In which manner man is a body with soal and what is the meaning of dis-harmony and illness in that relation? Character of "pharmacon" (medicine) in Homeric tradition (which is included in the fi rst mentioning of the word) will open one am-bivalence of medicine as both poison and medicine (therapeutic instrument)so the Christian tradition will not be deprived of these conotations. Illness and therapy are becoimg "poles" of the manifestation of the Existential in its relation towards nature and person and towards their anti-thetic distance. Theology of illness will thus be conditioned by personality theology in the Byzantine patristic thought.

Published

2022-08-31