On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua

Maximos The Confessor

ISBN 10: 0674730836 / ISBN 13: 9780674730830

Edité par Harvard University Press Apr 2014, 2014

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Neuware - Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his greatest philosophical and doctrinal work, in which daring originality, prodigious talent for speculative thinking, and analytical acumen are on lavish display. The result is a labyrinthine map of the mind¿s journey to God.

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• Titre: On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press Apr 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674730836
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674730830
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 149 H x 27 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 149 millimètres de hauteur par 27 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 520 grammes

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Synopsis

Maximos the Confessor (580-662) occupies a unique position in the history of Byzantine philosophy, theology, and spirituality. His profound spiritual experiences and penetrating theological vision found complex and often astonishing expression in his unparalleled command of Greek philosophy, making him one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. So thoroughly did his thought come to influence the Byzantine theological tradition that it is impossible to trace the subsequent history of Orthodox Christianity without knowledge of his work.

The Ambigua (or "Book of Difficulties") is Maximos's greatest philosophical and doctrinal work, in which his daring originality, prodigious talent for speculative thinking, and analytical acumen are on lavish display. In the Ambigua, a broad range of theological topics--cosmology, anthropology, the philosophy of mind and language, allegory, asceticism, and metaphysics--are transformed in a synthesis of Aristotelian logic, Platonic metaphysics, Stoic psychology, and the arithmetical philosophy of a revived Pythagoreanism. The result is a labyrinthine map of the mind's journey to God that figured prominently in the Neoplatonic revival of the Komnenian Renaissance and the Hesychast Controversies of the Late Byzantine period.

This remarkable work has never before been available in a critically-based edition or English translation.

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Nicholas Constas is Professor of Patristics and Orthodox Spirituality at Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, MA.