2789 KB0 KB192120252025Arko, Alenkaštevilka:3letnik:85str. 697-710ISSN:0006-5722DOI:10.34291/BV2025/03/ArkoCOBISSID_HOST:262741507URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-ZJTGIGZ2enZaložba Univerze v LjubljaniBogoslovni vestnikanthropologyantropologijadesiredušafreedom of choicegraceGregorius Nyssenusmethoriosmilostsoulsvoboda izbireželjaThe Concept of the boundary (methorios) in the anthropology of Saint Gregory of Nyssa| Pojem meje (methorios) v antropologiji sv. Gregorja iz Nise|Gregory of Nyssa’s understanding of anthropology is anything but one-di-mensional. Characteristic of his thinking is the gradual move away from a Platonic, dualistic conception towards a holistic one, which was developed both in dialogue with contemporary philosophical currents and based on biblical revelation. It is therefore not surprising that his anthropology continues to pose a challenge to scholars studying the teachings of the Church Fathers on the human person. Wi-thin this holistic horizon, man is methorios – a boundary – precisely because he exists at the interface between the spiritual and the material order, as a creature that is both an embodied and a psychic being. Ontologically, this liminality is expressed in the soul, while morally it manifests itself in desire, which leads man either to a virtuous life or to servitude under sin. Finally, man, created in the ima-ge of God, is also, through divine providence, the threshold between created exi-stence and the uncreated God. The ontological gulf that separates them cannot be bridged or dissolved by a human person and her endeavours. It is overcome in Jesus Christ, who unites the uncreated divine and created human nature in his person. In communion with him – and thus through grace – a human being is ena-bled to transcend his own limitations and participate in divine lifePogled Gregorja iz Nise na človeka je vse prej kot enoplasten, še bolj pa je zanj značilno, da se postopoma oddaljuje od platonično obarvane dualistične antropologije in se približuje holistični koncepciji, ki jo razvija v dialogu s sočasni-mi filozofskimi tokovi in ma podlagi svetopisemskega razodetja, zato ne preseneča, da je njegova antropologija vedno znova izziv za preučevalce nauka o človeku pri cerkvenih očetih. V holistični perspektivi je človek methorios (meja, presečišče), ker biva med duhovnim in materialnim stvarstvom, ker je duševno in telesno bitje. Mejo na ontološki ravni predstavlja duša, na moralni pa želja, ki človeka usmerja bodisi h krepostnemu življenju, bodisi k suženjstvu grehu. Nenazadnje je človek, ustvarjen po Božji podobi, po Božji previdnosti tudi meja med ustvarjeno resničnostjo in neustvarjenim Bogom. Ontološke razdalje med njima ni mogoče preseči ali izničiti, lahko pa je na nek način presežena v Jezusu Kristusu, ki je deležen tako neustvarjene Božje kot ustvarjene človeške narave in v odnosu z njim, torej po milostiTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta