Principle of an affirmed dialogue as the methodological principle of communication theology

Abstract

The principle of an «affirmed dialogue» as one of the most important principles of communication theology has been investigated. The Trinitarian basis of this principle rooted in the paradigm of perichoral relations when the Father and the Son are interlocutors in a dialogue certified by the Holy Spirit has been justified. The confirmation of the same dialogue is considered as no less important than its continuation, which agrees to the asymmetry of intra-Trinity communication from the point of view of the ontological positioning of the Faces. The ways of extrapolation of this principle into minor are shown, when the internal dialogue of man with himself and his interpersonal communication are truly carried out only in the presence of the «eternal You» – the source of true relationships, revealed in them through the manifestation of inalienable communication. The affirmed dialogue can be a dialogue of three or many: First, Second and others. Therefore, affirmation in its liturgical and extra-liturgical form can take place in two ways: «I-to God-through confirmation of the Other (Others)» and «I-to the Other (Others) in the confirmation of God». Regardless of the configuration, the Third Party always acts as a loci of reciprocity, when the ratio of two, so to say, is legitimized by a third, while the third is co-existent in the relationship between the two.