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author: Oleksandr Marchuk


Urgency of the research. The problem of struggle against COVID-19 that had perfectly got the world dimensions, taken millions of human lives, became a real challenge not only for physical but also for the mental health of everyone who had overcome it or suffered losses among the loved ones, relatives and close friends, can’t leave indifferent. Particularly demanded is a scientific search of not only theoretical sources of spiritual and psychological (ethical, ethical-psychological) stability but also a discovery of mechanisms of its practical, activity realization, including the sanogenical-therapeutic potential of anthropological conceptions of religious systems, in particular eastern Christian patristic ideas in accordingly methodological and up-dated perspective of conceptualization.

Target setting. Eastern patristic interpretation “nοῦσ-λόγοσ” (components of cogitative soul power) is shown up as a complete system that (from the standpoint of the analysis of their functional possibilities) is opened up, accordingly in two main abilities: practical and theoretical (contemplative). As a result, it is an important conceptual base for the problems explanation of sanogenical and therapeutic potential of internal and interpersonal communicativeness and the determination of prospects of its practical embodiment.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. In domestic historiography, there are no integrated scientific investigations that would be devoted to the analysis of the rational soul power from the standpoint of sanogenesis in the anthropology of Eastern patristic. The only work in which important soteriological topics are briefly analyzed from the standpoint of our chosen methodolo-gical perspective is the article Archim. Tikhon Sofiychuk. Among the well-known Ukrainian and foreign scientists who, within the framework of their main scientific investigations, thoroughly deal with the problematic patristic issues are: Metr. Vasylii Karayanіs, Jean-Claude Larchet, Metr. Iierofei Vlakhos, Y. Chornomo-rets, H. Khrystokin and others.

The research objective. The need to disclose possible mechanisms to achieve spiritual health and perfection of soul’s smart power, outlining features, defining perspectives outlining possible prospects for the disclosure of sanogenic-therapeutic means of communicativeness in the ideological system of anthropology of Eastern patristics predetermines the actuality of this article, reveals its basic aim and objectives.

The statement of basic materials. In this part of the study the peculiarity of the correlation, of sanogenical interrelation and perspective of practical explanation of components of cogitative soul power were shown. Particularly, the semantic features of their sanogenical reproduction from the standpoint of disclosure of essential and dynamic principle of arrangement the mental soul power and realization ways of its abilities were analyzed.

Conclusions. The concrete ideological basis of the disclosure of the sanogenic-therapeutic potential of communicativeness for thinkers of Eastern Patristics is the essential dimension of ontology and soteriology. Energetic forms of soterical, ie healing (through naturally growing inner union and union with God) unfolding of two parallel sequences (pairs of parallel categories of sanogenesis of mental abilities, where mind (nοῦσ) and mind (λόγοσ) are only the first pair) schematically reveal the essence of the basic principle of achieving spiritual health.
Thus, the cogitative soul power is a defining functional component of the reproduction of the possibilities of the process of achieving human perfection (integrity), healing internal- and interpersonal communicativeness.

Key words: “God”, “soul”, “cogitative soul power”,“spiritual health”, “spiritual perfection”.


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