Theoros

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Theoros referred to in ancient Greece

  1. the oracle inquirer,
  2. the party member, Origen
  3. the cult officials,
  4. the festival participant / audience.

What all meanings have in common is the close connection, which extends from the sacred, to the Greek gods and their festivals. Theoros and theoria thus have the meaning of "vision of the divine and salvation", theoria received the secondary "secularized" meaning of "vision, knowledge". The two terms Theoros / theoria found, for example, starting from close to the ancient Greek mystery cults and the Platonic doctrine of ideas , input into the philosophical mysticism of Plotinus , in the Christ-mysticism of the Church Fathers Origen and Augustine and the medieval mysticism.

See also

literature

  • Otto Langer: Christian Mysticism of the Middle Ages. Mysticism and Rationalization - Stations of a Conflict. Darmstadt 2004, pp. 51-70