Volume 5, Issue 1, 2008
Dan Chiţoiu
Pages 28-39
The Theme of the Simplicity of the Mind as the Presupposition of the Byzantine Cultural Model
This article discuss the origin of the Byzantine Cultural Model, influenced by the patristic anthropologic perspective, which discerns that present-day man is not
generic man, but is at an intermediate stage, between a lost condition and one that could be attained. A dimension of the Eastern Christian understanding of man that is less known nowadays is related to the theme of the garment of skin. This is connected with another one, the theme of the simplicity of the mind.