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Orthodox Epistemology: Participatory vs Propositional Knowledge of God with Bishop Maximus

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The Meaning Crisis

I believe that he is a sincere individual. He is approaching it from ultimately a naturalist view but what he calls extended naturalism which I think actually is a very useful step a way from pure materialism. Ultimately he constructs a vision of reality which tends in the neoplatonic direction in which he explicitly connects with neoplatonism although it's definitely not the original version of Neoplatonism. The things that he recommends people to do in order to address the meaning crisis are also correct. But they fundamentally fall short of what is really behind meaning in our lives because we as Orthodox Christians know that that true meaning is connected with being with God.

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