The Personal Aspect of Will Healing and Its Soteriological Significance

Authors

  • Andrey Olegovich Maximov Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies named after Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius

Keywords:

healing of the will, soteriology, personality, image of God, Christian personalism

Abstract

The article touches upon the personal aspect of salvation — the healing of a person’s sinful will. This multifaceted theological problem is considered by the author from the point of view of Christian personalism. The main thesis of the article is that the ‘choosing’ gnomic will cannot be generated by a person as an image of God. On the contrary, the sinful volition is the result of a certain ‘eclipse’ of the personal principle, the closure of the individual in his self. However, since the personal logos is indestructible in man, healing the will remains a personal task. Its solution consists in overcoming the gap in a person’s hypostatic communion with God and neighbors. According to Fr. George Florovsky, this is not only an ascetic or moral act, but an “ontological law of spiritual existence”, a condition for communion with God in the sacrament of freedom.

Author Biography

Andrey Olegovich Maximov, Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies named after Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius

Рostgraduate student, Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies named after Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius (Russia)

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Published

2024-07-14

Issue

No. 1(9) (2024)

Section

Theoretical Theology