The Oxford handbook of Maximus the Confessor / edited by Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil.
| Other author/creator | Allen, Pauline, 1948- |
| Other author/creator | Neil, Bronwen. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015. |
| Description | xxviii, 611 pages : maps ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Religion |
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| Portion of title | Handbook of Maximus the Confessor |
| Portion of title | Maximus the Confessor |
| Series | Oxford handbooks Oxford handbooks. ^A611862 |
| Contents | Part I. Historical setting. Life and times of Maximus the Confessor / Pauline Allen -- A new date-list of the works of Maximus the Confessor / Marek Jankowiak and Phil Booth -- Byzantium in the seventh century / Walter E. Kaegi -- Maximus, a cautious neo-Chalcedonian / Cyril Hovorun -- part II. Theological and philosophical influences. Classical philosophical influences: Aristotle and Platonism / Marius Portaru -- The foundation of Origenist metaphysics / Pascal Mueller-Jourdan -- The ascetic tradition / Marcus Plested -- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor / Ysabel de Andia -- Mindset ([gnómé]) in John Chrysostom / Raymond J. Laird -- Augustine on the will / Johannes Börjesson -- Divine providence and the gnomic will before Maximus / Bronwen Neil -- part III. Works and thought. Exegesis of scripture / Paul M. Blowers -- Maximus the Confessor's use of literary genres / Peter van Deun -- Passions, ascesis, and the virtues / Demetrios Bathrellos -- Christocentric cosmology / Torstein T. Tollefsen -- Eschatology in Maximus the Confessor / Andreas Andreopoulos -- The mode of deification / Jean-Claude Larchet -- Spiritual anthropology in Ambiguum 7 / Adam G. Cooper -- Mapping reality within the experience of holiness / Doru Costache -- Christian life and praxis: the Centuries on love / George C. Berthold -- Liturgy as cosmic transformation / Thomas Cattoi -- part IV. Reception. The Georgian tradition on Maximus the Confessor / Lela Khoperia -- Maximus' heritage in Russia and Ukraine / Grigory Benevich -- The impact of Maximus the Confessor on John Scottus Eriugena / Catherine Kavanagh -- Maximus the Confessor's influence and reception in Byzantine and modern Orthodoxy / Andrew Louth -- The theology of the will / Ian A. McFarland -- Maximus and modern psychology / Michael Bakker -- Maximus the Confessor and ecumenism / A. Edward Siecienski -- Reception of Maximian thought in the modern era / Joshua Lollar. |
| Abstract | "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 editors of this volume aim to provide 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Series statement from book jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014956586 |
| ISBN | 9780199673834 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0199673837 (hbk.) |
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