Christian mystical experience in the panorama of transformations of non-classical ontologies of being-in-time
Trajectories of intersection and divergence between philosophical and religiously mystical versions of the ontology of being-in-time are studied in the article. It is concluded that the soul is constituted in qualitatively different time than “I”. If the soul is the junction of times, then “I” lives in the place of time breaking. The exit from time to eternity is preceded by the transformation of temporality by the junction of time in the modus of the present. In mystical traditions, such a transformation can be carried out in opposite directions: both the expansion of the present and the compression of the moment. A paradoxical roll-call is stated between the experience of the present in Christian mysticism and the theme of the present in non-classical philosophy. They agree that “I” can stay in the modus of the present not with his own efforts, but only in coexistence – joint existence. In Christian experience, this is the co-existence of synergy with God. In modern post-philosophy, God is replaced by the figure of the Other. Implications of such a substitution are being investigated. The uniqueness of the Christian version of the relation between time and eternity is seen in the provision on the gradation of qualitatively different times: both “timeless time” and “creature eternity”.
- Deutsch D. The Fabric of Reality. New York, Viking Adult, 1997. 390 p. (Russ.ed.: Deutsch D. Struktura realnosti. Moscow, R&D Dinamics Publ., 2001. 178 p.).
- Nesteruk A. Logos i kosmos [Logos and Space]. Moscow, Bibleysko-bogoslovskiy institute sv. apostola Andreya Publ., 2006. 443 p. (in Russian).
- St. Augustine. Confessions. Mount Vernon, Peter Pauper Press, Reprint of original 1838 edition. 314 р. (Russ. ed.: Avreliy Avgustin. Ispoved. Moscow, Renessavs Publ., 1991. 487 p.).
- Deleuze G. Logique du sens. Paris, Paris Minuit, 1966. 392 р. (Russ. ed.: Delez Zh. Logica smysla. Moscow, Academiya Publ., 1995. 298 p.).
- Jaspers К., Munster Н. А. Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte. Zurich, Artemis, 1948. 360 S. (Russ. ed.: Jaspers K. Isyokiistorii i eyotcel. In: Jaspers K. Smysl i naznacheniye istorii. Moscow, Politizdat Publ., 1991, pp. 28– 286).
- Losskiy V. N. Dogmaticheskoye bogosloviye [Dogmatic Theology]. In: Losskiy V. N. Bogovideniye. Moscow, OOO “Izdatel'stvo AST”, 2003, pp. 455–550 (in Russian).
- Berdyaev N. Smysl i napravleniye istoriyi [The Meaning and Purpose of History]. Moscow, Mysl’ Publ., 1990. 174 p. (in Russian).
- Svyatitel Vasiliy Velikiy. Six-day Conversations. In: Svyatitel Vasiliy Velikiy. Izbranniye tvoreniya [Selected Works]. Moscow, Izdatel’stvo Sretenskogo monastyrya, 2008, pp. 11–644 (in Russian).
- Levinas E. Le Humanisme del’autre homme. Paris, Fata Morgana, 1972. 110 p. (Russ. ed.: Levinas E. Gumanizm drugogo cheloveka. In: Levinas E. Vremya i Drugoy. Gumanizm drugogo cheloveka. St. Petersburg, Vyshaya religiozno-fi losofskaya shkola Publ., 1998, pp. 123–258).