DESCRIPTION: Marian Grabowski is a professor of philosophy at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He is also a theoretical physicist. His philosophical interests include philosophical anthropology, the axiology of science, and the philosophy of nature. His publications include the following books: “The History of the Fall: Towards an Adequate Anthropology,” “The Anointed One: A Contribution to Philosophical Christology,” and “Admiration and Amazement in Mathematics and Physics.” In the article in question, he addresses the issue of “philosophical exegesis,” which, in short, is the interpretation of biblical text using philosophical concepts. It is an attempt to read biblical text based on the tension between text that is poor in abstractions and the language that produces and accumulates them. In this way, not only does a new interpretative perspective open up, but the conceptually poor biblical text becomes an inspiration for philosophical reflection. "Such a philosophical exegesis of the beginning of Genesis, reading within it the symbol of the separation of light from darkness, allows for a fresh look at wonder, giving impetus to the theory of miracles. When describing extraordinary events, which we call ‘miraculous’, we usually engage the idea of probability. A miraculous event is then an event that is extremely unlikely. Is such a description satisfactory? Does it not place a miraculous event on a par with a whole range of things that are simply improbable? When we use the concept of a negligible event, then the probability is marginally equal to zero: it is not only arbitrarily small, but there is no limit to this ‘smallness’. As such, it is not impossible!" (pp. 56-57).
This website uses cookies for proper operation, in order to use the portal fully you must accept cookies.
English
Język Polski