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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   ELEMENTS OF BIBLICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: PERSON/ SUBJECT, SELF AND SOUL.

Authors:  IOAN CHIRILĂ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Anthropology is regarded as the study and knowledge of the human being from several different perspectives. A first perspective, of the history of religion, is concerned with morphological anthropology, exposing the vocabulary of anthropogenesis. The sociological perspective brings to light a structural anthropology where the human being is understood as a fundamentally social being. Finally, from a theological perspective, the paper exposes a teleological anthropology. This means understanding the human being not just as an object, but as a subject / person, as a personal dialogical reality (someone, not something), dialogicity which manifests on two different axis. On a horizontal axis, the human being is the subject through which interdisciplinarity is accomplished. On a vertical axis, we can speak about a liturgical accomplishment of man as a martyrical, doxological being. Man is perceived as a responsible being, the responsible reason of creation through the intermediary of which the alithic (from the Greek alithos) structures of the levels of reality return in a doxological movement to the Creator and determine in this manner the unity of Creation.

Keywords: biblical Anthropology, person, self, soul, science-religion dialog. 		 
         
     
         
         
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