Human Knowledge According to Saint Maximus the Confessor - Couverture rigide

Dimitrova, Nevena

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498285600 ISBN 13 : 9781498285605

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nevena Dimitrova is a postdoctoral scholar of Charles University in Prague. She completed her PhD on Byzantine philosophy at the universities of Sofia, Leuven, and Cologne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498285600
• ISBN 13: 9781498285605
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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