Human Knowledge According To Saint Maximus The Confessor

Author : Nevena Dimitrova
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532608506

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Human Knowledge According to Saint Maximus the Confessor by Nevena Dimitrova Pdf

This book is dedicated to the synergic process of divine-human communion in the humanly possible knowledge of God, according to Saint Maximus the Confessor. These various types of knowledge play an important, but as yet unexplored role in Maximus the Confessor's teaching on God, which in many respects appears to be a synthesis and culmination of the Greek patristic tradition and the antecedent of ancient pre-Christian and Christian philosophy. Focus on this problem brings forth the major issues of Maximus' psychology: the "soul-body" relationship and a detailed examination of the cognitive capacities of the soul, including the perception of the senses, rational activity, and operations of the mind. The indivisibility of the gnoseological issues from medieval man is traced in an examination of the cognitive levels within the trichotomic structure of practical philosophy, natural contemplation, and theology. The two methods--both affirmative (cataphatic) and negative (apophatic)--demonstrate the two rational discourses in human knowledge of God. Special attention is given to the understanding of hexis (ἕξις) and gnomi (γνώμη) concepts and their crucial place in the cognitive structure, leading to knowledge of God as Goodness and of God as Truth.

Author : Nevena Dimitrova
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625645746

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Human Knowledge According to Saint Maximus the Confessor by Nevena Dimitrova Pdf

This book is dedicated to the synergic process of divine-human communion in the humanly possible knowledge of God, according to Saint Maximus the Confessor. These various types of knowledge play an important, but as yet unexplored role in Maximus the Confessor's teaching on God, which in many respects appears to be a synthesis and culmination of the Greek patristic tradition and the antecedent of ancient pre-Christian and Christian philosophy. Focus on this problem brings forth the major issues of Maximus' psychology: the "soul-body" relationship and a detailed examination of the cognitive capacities of the soul, including the perception of the senses, rational activity, and operations of the mind. The indivisibility of the gnoseological issues from medieval man is traced in an examination of the cognitive levels within the trichotomic structure of practical philosophy, natural contemplation, and theology. The two methods--both affirmative (cataphatic) and negative (apophatic)--demonstrate the two rational discourses in human knowledge of God. Special attention is given to the understanding of hexis (ἕξις) and gnomi (γνώμη) concepts and their crucial place in the cognitive structure, leading to knowledge of God as Goodness and of God as Truth.

Author : Maximus (Confessor, Heiliger)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bibles
ISBN : UVA:X030607592

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St. Maximus the Confessor's Questions and Doubts by Maximus (Confessor, Heiliger) Pdf

Maximus the Confessor (580-662) was a monk whose writings focused on ascetical interpretations of biblical and patristic works. For his refusal to accept the Monothelite position supported by Emperor Constans II, he was tried as a heretic, his right hand was cut off, and his tongue was cut out. A major theologian of the Byzantine Church, St. Maximus is venerated in both Eastern and Western Christian traditions. Despina Prassas s translation of the Quaestiones et Dubia presents for the first time in English one of the Confessor s most significant contributions to early Christian biblical interpretation. The original work is believed to have been written before 626 while the monk was a member of a community located near Constantinople. The text is a series of 239 interrogations and responses addressing theological, philosophical, ascetical, spiritual, and liturgical concerns. In his work, Maximus the Confessor brings together the patristic exegetical aporiai tradition and the spiritual-pedagogical tradition of monastic questions and responses. The overarching theme is the importance of the ascetical life. For Maximus, askesis is a lifelong endeavor that consists of the struggle and discipline to maintain control over the passions. One engages in the ascetical life by taking part in both theoria (contemplation) and praxis (action). To convey this teaching, Maximus uses a number of pedagogical tools including allegory, etymology, number symbolism, and military terminology. Prassas provides a rich historical and contextual background in her introduction to help ground and familiarize the reader with this work. As the first study focused exclusively on the Quaestiones et dubia, this important book will appeal to the growing audience of readers interested in Maximus the Confessor and, more broadly, to scholars and students of early Christianity, early Byzantine monasticism, and patristic biblical exegesis.

Author : Melchisedec Törönen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191537851

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Union and Distinction in the Thought of St Maximus the Confessor by Melchisedec Törönen Pdf

Union and Distinction in the Thought of St Maximus the Confessor presents the writings of a key figure in Byzantine theology in the light of the themes of unity and diversity. The principle of simultaneous union and distinction forms the core of Maximus' thought, pervading every area of his theology. It can be summarized as: Things united remain distinct and without confusion in an inseparable union. As Melchisedec Törönen shows, this master theme also resonates in contemporary theological and philosophical discussions.

Author : Andrew Louth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134814909

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Maximus the Confessor by Andrew Louth Pdf

St Maximus the Confessor, the greatest of Byzantine theologians, lived through the most catastrophic period the Byzantine Empire was to experience before the Crusades. This book introduces the reader to the times and upheavals during which Maximus lived. It discusses his cosmic vision of humanity and the role of the church. The study makes available a selection of Maximus' theological treaties many of them translated for the first time. The translations are accompanied by a lucid and informed introduction.

Author : Michael Fuller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031418006

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Issues in Science and Theology: Global Sustainability by Michael Fuller Pdf

Author : David Bentley Hart
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802866868

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The Doors of the Sea by David Bentley Hart Pdf

As news reports of the horrific December 2004 tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God s power or God s nonexistence, asking over and over, How could a good and loving God if such exists allow such suffering? In The Doors of the Sea David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize senseless human suffering. He calls both to recognize in the worst catastrophes not the providential will of God but rather the ongoing struggle between the rebellious powers that enslave the world and the God who loves it wholly.

Author : Saint Maximus (Confessor)
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809126591

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Maximus Confessor by Saint Maximus (Confessor) Pdf

This volume includes a translation of four spiritual treatises of Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662), plus an account of his trial. Included are The Four Hundred Chapters of Love, Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, Chapters on Knowledge, The Church's Mystagogy, and Trial of Maximus.

Author : Lewis Ayres,Michael W. Champion,Matthew R. Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108871914

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The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity by Lewis Ayres,Michael W. Champion,Matthew R. Crawford Pdf

This book is for scholars and students of the ideas, literatures, and cultures of early Christianity and late antiquity, ancient philosophers, and historians of theology. It offers new perspectives on early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge in relation to changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity.

Author : Luke Steven
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227907511

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Imitation, Knowledge, and the Task of Christology in Maximus the Confessor by Luke Steven Pdf

Maximus the Confessor (580-662) was a monk and theologian whose combustive historical era, committed doctrinal reflection, and loud and influential voice took him on a turbulent career of traveling and writing around the Mediterranean. Maximus was a spiritual teacher, an ascetic, a man in love with Scripture and with Christ, the Word at Scripture's heart. He was also a polemicist, a crafter of dogma, an embattled christologian, a premeditating rhetorician. In this study, Luke Steven picks up a spiritual and philosophical strand that binds together these two disparate sides of the man and his writings. Steven argues that throughout his oeuvre the Confessor positions imitation as the key to knowledge. This lasting epistemology characterizes his earlier ascetic and spiritual works, and in his later works it prominently defines his dogmatic christological method-that is, the means by which he communicates and persuades and brings people to understand and encounter Jesus Christ, the one with two natures, divine and human. This is a multifaceted study that offers a deep assessment of Maximus's forebears, new insight on the animating assumptions of his thought, and an unprecedented focus on the rhetoric and method of his christological writings.

Author : Daniel Haynes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532666001

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A Saint for East and West by Daniel Haynes Pdf

In 1054 CE, the Great Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity occurred, and the official break of communion between the two ancient branches of the church continues to this day. There have been numerous church commissions and academic groups created to try and bridge the ecumenical divides between East and West, yet official communion is still just out of reach. The thought of St. Maximus the Confessor, a saint of both churches, provides a unique theological lens through which to map out a path of ecumenical understanding and, hopefully, reconciliation and union. Through an exposition of the intellectual history of Maximus' theological influence, his moral and spiritual theology, and his metaphysical vision of creation, a common Christianity emerges. This book brings together leading scholars and thinkers from both traditions around the theology of St. Maximus to cultivate greater union between Eastern and Western Christianity.

Author : Alexei V. Nesteruk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666776621

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God, Humanity, and the Universe by Alexei V. Nesteruk Pdf

The main objective of this book on cosmology and theology is to reassess the current approach to research in the field of interaction, mediation, and dialogue between modern cosmology and Christian theology (Eastern Orthodox theology in particular). This project was part of wide-ranging cross-disciplinary research undertaken by scientists, philosophers, and theologians across the world within the framework of Science & Orthodoxy around the World, run by the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens) from 2019 to 2023. The project and this publication contribute to the large-scale academic activity in the field of science and religion (or science and theology) with a particular accent on the contribution of Eastern Orthodox theology to this dialogue, as well as to the venues of advancement of this theology given the recent breakthroughs in cosmology, physics, and philosophy. The book also underlines the importance of expressing cosmological ideas theologically, symbolically, and scientifically in the wide context of culture and humanity's sociopolitical and environmental predicaments.

Author : Adam G. Cooper
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191534645

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The Body in St Maximus the Confessor by Adam G. Cooper Pdf

Contemporary scholarship recognizes in Maximus the Confessor a theologian of towering intellectual importance. In this book Adam G. Cooper puts to him a question which from the origins of Christian thought has constituted an interpretative crux for catholic Christianity: what is the place of the material order and, specifically, of the human body, in God's creative, redemptive, and perfective economies? While the study builds upon the insights of other efforts in Maximian scholarship, it primarily presents an engagement with the full vista of Maximus's own writings, providing a unique contribution towards an intelligent apprehension of this erudite but often impenetrable theological mind.

Author : John S. Hamlon
Publisher : John Hamlon
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780578820491

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Called to Existence through Love... for Love by John S. Hamlon Pdf

Called to Existence through Love… for Love is the “do-it-yourself” version of an introductory class on John Paul II’s thought that has had a long and lively run. This tutorial is for those who like to poke their noses into places where they “don’t belong,” in this case, material considered too difficult for “non-academic” persons to comprehend. Although the target audience is the inquiring, motivated Catholic, the content is universal—one does not have to be Catholic to benefit from the thought of John Paul II and other notable sages like Edith Stein, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Paul VI. Welcome to a timely look at love and truth, marriage and family!

Author : Teresa Obolevitch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192575272

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Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought by Teresa Obolevitch Pdf

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious thought. Teresa Obolevitch offers a synthetic approach on the development of the problem throughout the whole history of Russian thought, starting from the medieval period and arriving in contemporary times. She considers the relationship between science and religion in the eighteenth century, the so-called academic philosophy of the 19th and 20th century, the thought of Peter Chaadaev, the Slavophiles, and in the most influential literature figures, such as Fedor Dostoevsky and Lev Tolstoy. The volume also analyses two channels of the formation of philosophy in the context of the relationship between theology and science in Russia. The first is connected with the attempt to rationalize the truths of faith and is exemplified by Vladimir Soloviev and Nikolai Lossky; the second wtih the apophatic tradition is presented by Pavel Florensky and Semen Frank. The book then describes the relation to scientific knowledge in the thought of Lev Shestov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergius Bulgakov, and Alexei Losev as well as the original project of Russian Cosmism (on the examples of Nikolai Fedorov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Vladimir Vernadsky). Obolevitch presents the current state of the discussion on this topic by paying attention to the Neopatristic synthesis (Fr Georges Florovsky and his followers) and offers the brief comparative analyse of the relationship between science and religion from the Western and Russian perspectives.