The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 September 2017
- ISBN 9780198779339
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages640 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Weight 1086 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) has become one of the most discussed figures in contemporary studies of Byzantine theology and philosophy. This book integrates for the first time Maximus' works and thought into the history of his life in the politically troubled times of seventh-century Byzantium.
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Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662) has become one of the most discussed figures in contemporary patristic studies. This is partly due to the relatively recent discovery and critical edition of his works in various genres, including On the Ascetic Life, Four Centuries on Charity, Two Centuries on Theology and the Incarnation, On the 'Our Father', two separate Books of Difficulties, addressed to John and to Thomas, Questions and Doubts, Questions to Thalassius, Mystagogy and the Short Theological and Polemical Works.
The impact of these works reached far beyond the Greek East, with his involvement in the western resistance to imperial heresy, notably at the Lateran Synod in 649. Together with Pope Martin I (649-53 CE), Maximus the Confessor and his circle were the most vocal opponents of Constantinople's introduction of the doctrine of monothelitism. This dispute over the number of wills in Christ became a contest between the imperial government and church of Constantinople on the one hand, and the bishop of Rome in concert with eastern monks such as Maximus, John Moschus, and Sophronius, on the other, over the right to define orthodoxy. An understanding of the difficult relations between church and state in this troubled period at the close of Late Antiquity is necessary for a full appreciation of Maximus' contribution to this controversy. The volume provides the political and historical background to Maximus' activities, as well as a summary of his achievements in the spheres of theology and philosophy, especially neo-Platonism and Aristotelianism.
this Handbook is a monumental and much-needed publication, which will definitely mark the field of Maximian studies for the next generations of scholars.
Table of Contents:
Part One. Historical Setting
Life and Times of Maximus the Confessor
An Updated Date-List of the Works of Maximus the Confessor
Byzantium in the Seventh Century
Maximus, a Cautious Chalcedonian
Part Two. Theological and Philosophical Influences
Classical Philosophical Influences: Aristotle and Platonism
The Foundation of Origenist Metaphysics
Theological and Philosophical Influences: The Ascetic Tradition
Dionysius Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor
Mindset (?????) in John Chrysostom
Augustine on the Will
Divine Providence and the Gnomic Will before Maximus
Part Three. Works and Thought
Exegesis of Scripture
Maximus the Confessor's Use of Literary Genres
Passions, Ascesis, and the Virtues
Christocentric Cosmology
Eschatology in Maximus the Confessor
The Mode of Deification
Spiritual Anthropology in Ambiguum 7
Mapping Reality within the Experience of Holiness
Christian Life and Praxis: The Centuries on Love
Liturgy as Cosmic Transformation
Part Four. Reception
The Georgian Tradition on Maximus the Confessor
Maximus' Heritage in Russia and Ukraine
The Impact of Maximus the Confessor on John Scottus Eriugena
Maximus the Confessor's Influence and Reception in Byzantine and Modern Orthodoxy
The Theology of the Will
Maximus and Modern Psychology
Maximus the Confessor and Ecumenism
Reception of Maximian Thought in the Modern Era
