@article{Żelazny_2019, title={Koncepcja czasu w chrześcijaństwie orientalnym}, volume={35}, url={https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/vv/article/view/1951}, DOI={10.31743/vv.1951}, abstractNote={<p>The concept of oriental theology is often identified with the traditions of Asia Minor, although this is really a huge oversimplification. What primarily characterizes it is a significant emphasis on the material aspect of salvation, the real, material retribution for good and evil. Time, to the Semitic mind, exists in reality, although its course may vary. God transcends the category of time (Ephrem) even though people, both here-and-now and in the eschatological future, are subject to His laws. To oriental Christians, history constitutes the record of God’s responses to people’s choices, and this observation allows us to understand which interpretations of ours were right and which were not. Maintaining peace with God – that is, life in accordance with His Commandments – finds its confirmation, sooner or later, in our history in this world. This principle of fairness will be transferred onto the reality of those who were saved. Here is where the emphasis on history and the occurrence’s interpretation in the <em>pax deorum </em>confirmation category derives from in the life of Christian communities. In the article, drawing on several authors, an effort has been made to show how such an attitude toward time manifested in Christian literature in the Syrian language.</p>}, journal={Verbum Vitae}, author={Żelazny, Jan Witold}, year={2019}, month={Jun.}, pages={419–433} }