The conception of the Absolute is the extreme limit of objectivizing of abstract thought.
In the Absolute there are no signs whatever of existence, no signs of life. The Absolute belongs not so much to religious revelation as to religious philosophy and theology. It is a product of thought.
The abstract Absolute shares the fate of abstract being which is in no way distinguished from non-being. You cannot pray to the Absolute. No dramatic meeting with is possible. We call that the Absolute which has no relation to an other and has no need of an other.
The Absolute is not a being nor a personality, which always presupposes a going out from itself and a meeting with an other. The God of revelation, the God of the Bible is not the Absolute. In Him there is dramatic life and movement, there is a relation to an other, to man, and the world.
By the precepts of Aristotelean philosophy, they have changed the God of the Bible into pure act and excluded from Him all inward motion and every tragic principle. The Absolute cannot issue from itself and create the world. Movement and change cannot be attributed to it . . .
God is not the Absolute. God is relative to Creation, to the world, and to man, and with Him takes place the drama of freedom and love.
N. Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom
In the Absolute there are no signs whatever of existence, no signs of life. The Absolute belongs not so much to religious revelation as to religious philosophy and theology. It is a product of thought.
The abstract Absolute shares the fate of abstract being which is in no way distinguished from non-being. You cannot pray to the Absolute. No dramatic meeting with is possible. We call that the Absolute which has no relation to an other and has no need of an other.
The Absolute is not a being nor a personality, which always presupposes a going out from itself and a meeting with an other. The God of revelation, the God of the Bible is not the Absolute. In Him there is dramatic life and movement, there is a relation to an other, to man, and the world.
By the precepts of Aristotelean philosophy, they have changed the God of the Bible into pure act and excluded from Him all inward motion and every tragic principle. The Absolute cannot issue from itself and create the world. Movement and change cannot be attributed to it . . .
God is not the Absolute. God is relative to Creation, to the world, and to man, and with Him takes place the drama of freedom and love.
N. Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom
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