Rožanc Award 2011 To Those Outside: Exoteric Writings 1990-2003 Gorazd Kocijančič (born 17 September 1964) is a freelance Slovene philosopher, poet and translator.
[3] In his book Mediations (1996), Kocijančič expressed his understanding of a contemporary Christian philosophy stemming from the idea of a radical apophatic thought.
In his book Between the East and the West: Four Contributions to the Ecstatics (2004) he formulated his understanding of the relationship between different spiritual traditions and the metaontology, gnoseology, ethics and ecclesiology of the supraconfessional, Eastern-Western Christianity.
He has also worked on the New standard translation of the Bible into Slovene by providing translation of and commentary to the Gospels and certain deuterocanonical books of Old Testament and the revision of the entire New Testament, and translated and annotated numerous patristic works such as Thoughts of the Greek Fathers on Prayer (1993), The Wisdom of the Desert (1994), Apostolic Fathers (1996), Gregory of Nyssa: Life of Macrina, Dialogue On the Soul and Resurrection (1996), Logos in Defence of the Truth: Selected Writings by the Early Christian Apologists (1998), Maximus the Confessor: Selected Works (2000).
From German he has translated Rilke's Marienleben und Stundenbuch, and with Vid Snoj poems by Angelus Silesius and Paul Celan.
He also edited and translated an anthology of Christian Greek poetry Athos - The Dividing Line Between Heaven and the Earth.
Later he founded the international multilingual electronic journal for culture and spirituality "Logos"[4] Currently he is working on his own philosophical system: the first, ontological part, was published under title Razbitje.