Wczesnochrześcijańska symbolika o charakterze ponerologicznym. Wybrane przykłady
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20392298 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mieczysław Paczkowski (0000-0002-4045-2314, Nicolaus Copernicus University, corresponding author), Mieczysław Celestyn Paczkowski |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Pages | 39-65 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vox Patrum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0860-9411 • E-ISSN: 2719-3586 |
| Publisher | Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawla II (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.31743/vp.4014 |
| OpenAlex | W3094760999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Ponerology is devoted to the study of evil in its different aspects. Indeed, also in the early Church it was created a kind of ponerological symbolism. This short study analyses some of these significant traditionally interpreted symbols. In the Christian symbolism holiness is full of fragrance, however the demons and sins emit a terrible odor. The symbolic value of darkness covers the negative aspects of human ignorance, evil, disbelief, danger and death. The fire represents not only illumination and light, but it has the punitive value. The serpent is first mentioned in connection with the history of the temptation and fall of the humanity. In the Christian tradition the serpent or the „dragon” represents Satan, the malicious enemy. Babylon symbolizes all that is worldly and fell away from God. St. Augustine sees the world in which he lives as a mixture of the city of confusion and the city of heaven (Jerusalem). In the ponerological symbolism appears Amalek. The Fathers equated them with passion or evil. The faithful of Christ always fights against him. In Origen this approach is much more clearly defined in his explicitly spiritualizing reading. The ponerological symbolism of the ancient Christian literature contained a moral or religious lessons or allegories
Art · Confusion · Fell · Heaven · Literature · Passion · Psychoanalysis · Temptation · Theology · Augustinian Studies and Theology · History · Philosophy · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies · Theology and Canon Law Studies
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |