The existential "ciphers" of Hexameron

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleЭкзистенциальные «шифры» Шестоднева
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Orthodox theological tradition and practice > Biblical interpretation - Various approaches to the problem of correlation between science and theology
6. Publication date 2013
7. lemma work Даренский Виталий [Author]. The existential "ciphers" of Hexameron
8. lemma manifestations Богословие творения : Creation theology
9. Keywords Hexameron - gnoseology
10. Citations
    1. http://standrews.ru/assets/files/Books/Nauka-i-bogoslovie/Otrivok_Bogoslovie-tvoreniya.pdf
11. Lemma body

    1. In the proposed experience of authorial anthropological reflection on the first chapter of Genesis, the aim is to explicate those special anthropological, or rather even anthropogenic meanings that structure self- consciousness and self-understanding of one "immersing" in the text.

       The author believes that the first chapter of Genesis is not just a story about what was at the very beginning of the created world, but it also immediately reveals the special way of seeing reality and the special language to narrate about it in the Revelation. The creation of this world is not the language of physical formulas and anatomical descriptions, but the language of fundamental symbols transferring universal meanings that structure human consciousness in a way to make it able to hear and understand the Message addressed to it.

       Hexameron implicitly carries within itself both not yet discovered the theory of consciousness, and a special method of analyzing the very depths of human existence, the author believes. "Heaven" and "earth", "waters" and "firmament" are the basic symbols of the initial ontological levels of the created world; simultaneously there are direct existential-symbolic correspondences of entities: "water" is correlated with the human flesh, "the earth" - with the soul, "the sky" - with the mind. This whole series of symbolic definitions, according to the author, fully corresponds to the primary state of human consciousness, just as the successive days of creation symbolically correspond to the successive stages of the consciousness formation.

       Darensky considers it necessary to develop this special theory of consciousness and cognition that the Hexameron implicitly has within itself, making a start from the most varied developments of the New and Newest Times philosophy.