Conceivability of Revelation: to the Enowning of Shoah
https://doi.org/10.25205/2658-4506-2021-14-1-38-82
Abstract
The article is concerned with philosophical and theological interpretation of the phenomenon of genocide of Jewish People in the days of the Second World War known as “Shoah”. The article presents comprehension of this phenomenon as the one possessing universal significance for the world history. The notion of Revelation is being interpreted in two ways: as a human message about the sense of Shoah, presented in testimonies of victims and survivors as well as a religious-philosophical way of conceptual comprehension of this message based on the idea of Revelation in Trinitarian theology. Testimony is interpreted from the point of ultimate theological value as a confessional testimony and as an actional one. Action is defined as a soteriological act committed with respect to Absolute Being. Absolute value rank of Shoah is set into direct correlation with the event of the Great Patriotic War as well as with separate intentions of Christological thought about the nature and genetic order of Theosis implication. The author is supported by the corpus of written works of Russian thinkers of the Silver Age, Nietzsche’s and Heidegger’s philosophy, along with transactions of modern Russian, Israeli, American and European philosophers and theologists.
Keywords
Revelation,
Shoah,
Great Patriotic War,
Enowning,
Testimony,
Confession,
Influence,
Act,
Trinitarian Theology,
Sophiology ,
Christology,
Resurrection,
Theosis,
Telos
About the Author
D. V. Malakhov
Francisk Scorina Gomel State University
Belarus
Belarus
Danila V. Malakhov, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Associate Professor
Gomel
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Malakhov D.V. Conceivability of Revelation: to the Enowning of Shoah. Reflexio. 2021;14(1):38-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/2658-4506-2021-14-1-38-82
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