The spirituality of anatheism

Jasiński, Karol (author)

The purpose of the paper is to critically present the essential elements of the concept of anatheism and to show it as a form of spirituality. Its essential expression is human openness and response to the various ways of the divine presence and call. It consists of three parts. The first presents the main ideas of anatheism (return of God as “Other” in a new form after the disappearance of the previous one; type of experience rather than a theory; need to deconstruct the scholastic concept of God), the second shows it as a certain type of spirituality (a way of life in the form of responding to the calls of the imagined divinity), while the third indicates the main areas of experience of the divine call (things, events and persons).

• Language: English
• Keywords: anatheism, spirituality, the sacramentality of things, events, human encounters
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 06.08.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 19-31
• Numbering: Letn. 85, [št.] 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-175371
• UDC: 2-58:141.41
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2025/01/Jasinski
• COBISS.SI-ID: 245015811
• Publication date in RUL: 24.10.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Duhovnost anateizma

Abstract

Namen prispevka je kritična predstavitev bistvenih elementov koncepta anateizma; obenem ga prikazujemo kot obliko duhovnosti. Njegov temeljni izraz je človekova odprtost in odziv na različne vrste Božje navzočnosti in klica. Prispevek je sestavljen iz treh delov. V prvem so predstavljene glavne ideje anateizma (vrnitev Boga kot ‚Drugega‘ v novi obliki po izginotju prejšnjega; vrsta izkušnje in ne teorije ; potreba po dekonstrukciji sholastičnega pojma Boga), v drugem je prikazan kot določena vrsta duhovnosti (način življenja v obliki odzivanja na klice namišljene božanskosti), v tretjem pa so navedena glavna področja doživljanja Božjega klica (stvari, dogodki in osebe).

• Keywords: anateizem, duhovnost, zakramentalnost stvari, dogodkov, srečevanja ljudi