Author: Mykhaylovskiy, Vitaliy.
Title: European expansion and the contested borderlands of late medieval Podillya, Ukraine.
Description: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2018. Hardcover. vii,112 pp. iilustrations, maps ; 24 cm (Beyond medieval Europe). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - This book sets out to answer the question of why Eastern Church writers showed no interest in analytical reasoning - the so-called intellectual silence of Rus' culture - while Western Church writers, by the time of the Scholastics, routinely incorporated analytical reasoning into their defences of the faith. Donald Ostrowski suggests that Western, post-Enlightenment- trained, analytical scholars miss the point, not because of an inability to comprehend cultural ideas which seem abstract and ineffable, but because the agenda is different. For the Eastern Church, faith was superior to reason. Eastern Church thinkers did not see any worth in disputation. If God is a mystery, and this world is an emanation from God, then this world is a mystery too. In the Eastern Church, they did not ask Why because, for them, any answer, any explanation, was merely a begging of the question. Why divide into categories what is whole and seamless? Why try to articulate what is ineffable? ISBN 9781942401506.

Keywords: UKRAINE,