This book sets out to answer the question of why Eastern Church writers showed no interest in analytical reasoning - the so-called "intellectual silence" of Rus' culture - while Western Church writers, by the time of the Scholastics, routinely incorporated analytical reasoning into their defences of the faith.Donald Ostrowski suggests that Western, post-Enlightenment- trained, analytical scholars often miss the point, not because of an inability to comprehend cultural ideas which seem abstract and ineffable, but because the agenda is different.
- Front Cover
- Front matter
- Half-title
- About the Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Body
- Introduction
- 1. Aesthetic Judgment
- 2. Neoplatonism, East and West
- Prayer of the Divine Name
- Breath Control
- The Heart as an Epistemological Organ
- Anti-Philosophy (Against the Mind That Is Not within the Heart)
- Being Born Again after Degradation
- 3. Why Was There an Abelard?
- 4. The Eastern Church’s Philosophical Outlook
- Conclusion
- Back matter
- List of Abbreviations
- Works Cited
- Index
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