The project of an Apophatic Anthropology (1952) was one of the most significant philosophical concerns of Andre Scrima. Pascalian in essence, the approach departs from the Augustinian roots of Western Christian theology and develops a Christian anthropology based on Eastern Orthodoxy. The endeavor of a human being to understand oneself does not lead, as in the case of Pascal, to identification with Jesus Christ's suffering, but further, to an attempt of deification, theosis, in which the main concept is Incarnation. This attempt opens to man the possibility to conceive himself as interior to...
The project of an Apophatic Anthropology (1952) was one of the most significant philosophical concerns of Andre Scrima. Pascalian in essence, the appr...