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Maximus Confessor

Selected Writings

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

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Maximus Confessor

Selected Writings

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

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.

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Paulist Press

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0809126591

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9780809126590

St. Maximus the Confessor's "Questions and Doubts"

By: Saint Maximus the Confessor

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St. Maximus the Confessor's "Questions and Doubts"

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Despina D. 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. 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. 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.

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249

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Cornell University Press

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1501755358

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9781501755354

St. Maximus the Confessor's "Questions and Doubts"

By: Saint Maximus the Confessor

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Maximus Confessor

Selected Writings

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

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On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture

The Responses to Thalassios

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

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On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture

The Responses to Thalassios

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Maximos the Confessor (ca. 580-662) is now widely recognized as one of the greatest theological thinkers, not simply in the entire canon of Greek patristic literature, but in the Christian tradition as a whole. A peripatetic monk and prolific writer, his penetrating theological vision found expression in an unparalleled synthesis of biblical exegesis, ascetic spirituality, patristic theology, and Greek philosophy, which is as remarkable for its conceptual sophistication as for its labyrinthine style of composition. On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture, presented here for the first time in a complete English translation (including the 465 scholia), contains Maximos’s virtuosic theological interpretations of sixty-five difficult passages from the Old and New Testaments. Because of its great length, along with its linguistic and conceptual difficulty, the work as a whole has been largely neglected. Yet alongside the Ambigua to John, On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios deserves to be ranked as the Confessor’s greatest work and one of the most important patristic treatises on the interpretation of Scripture, combining the interconnected traditions of monastic devotion to the Bible, the biblical exegesis of Origen, the sophisticated symbolic theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, and the rich spiritual anthropology of Greek Christian asceticism inspired by the Cappadocian Fathers.

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607

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CUA Press

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0813230314

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9780813230313

On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ

Selected Writings from St. Maximus the Confessor

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

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On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ

Selected Writings from St. Maximus the Confessor

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This volume provides translations from St. Maximus' two main collections of theological reflections - his Ambigua (or Difficulties) and his Questions to Thalassius - plus one of his Christological opuscula, previously unavailable in English. The translations are accompanied by notes. --from back cover.

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RSM Press

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088141249X

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9780881412499

The Ascetic Life

The Four Centuries on Charity

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

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The Ascetic Life

The Four Centuries on Charity

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

The Ascetic Life is a dialogue between a young novice and an old monk on how to achieve the Christian life. The Four Centuries is a collection of aphorisms.

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Paulist Press

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0809102587

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9780809102587

On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy

By: Saint Maximus the Confessor

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On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy

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St Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) expounds the meaning of the Divine Liturgy in On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy. He draws on the tradition of the Celestial Hierarchy by Dionysius the Areopagite, and influences the subsequent tradition, beginning with St Germanus of Constantinople's commentary. Maximus situates his understanding of the liturgy within his bold synthetic theological vision, seeing Christ the Logos of the God reflected and manifested in the logoi of created things. For Maximus, all things are interrelated-the material and the spiritual, God and man, earth and heaven-and cohere in Christ (cf. Col 1.17)"--

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Popular Patristics Series

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0881416479

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9780881416473

Ambigua to Thomas

Second Letter to Thomas

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

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Ambigua to Thomas

Second Letter to Thomas

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Maximus the Confessor, a monk and theologian of the seventh century, was a transmitter and creative interpreter of the dogmatic and ascetical traditions of the Greek-speaking Church, and an innovative mind in his own right. An important figure on the theological landscape of his day, he became deeply involved in the post-Chalcedonian Christological controversies concerning the natures, activities (energies), and wills in Christ, eventually suffering at the hands of the imperial authorities for his rejection of certain imperial dogmatic decrees, which in his view denied the principle of the salvation of the cosmos: the perfect communion of divinity and humanity as preserved in their own proper natures in the one Christ. He died in exile on the Black Sea coast, soon after his trial in Constantinople, in 662. The Ambigua to Thomas are a collection of chapters devoted to the exposition of passages from Gregory Nazianzen and Ps. Denys the Areopagite. Maximus uses the texts as a means of expounding the meaning of the perfect union of divinity and humanity in the one Christ, arriving ultimately at an interpretation of the phrase from Denys, which affirmed that Christ conducted his life among us according to a certain new theandric activity. The source text of this volume appeared in Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca as Maximus Confessor - Ambigua ad Thomam una cum epistula secunda ad eundem (CCSG 48). References to the corresponding pages of the Corpus Christianorum edition are provided in the margins of this translation.

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Brepols Publishers

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2503531547

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9782503531540

To the God sent scholastic

By: St. Maximus the Confessor,D.P. Curtin,Nico Hatzi

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To the God sent scholastic

By: St. Maximus the Confessor,D.P. Curtin,Nico Hatzi

In a theological discourse, Maximus the Monk discusses the concepts of justice and the soul's struggle against earthly desires. He references biblical teachings, particularly the notion of turning the other cheek and the significance of Christ's resurrection. Maximus emphasizes the importance of living a life aligned with divine principles, highlighting the struggle between the spiritual and the corporeal. He critiques the human tendency towards injustice and ignorance, urging a return to virtue through self-control and obedience to God's commandments. Ultimately, he reflects on the nature of Christ and the transformative power of faith.

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Dalcassian Press

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9798330454891

On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: Ambigua to John, 23-71

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

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On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: Ambigua to John, 23-71

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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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0674730836

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9780674730830

Two Hundred Chapters on Theology

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

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Two Hundred Chapters on Theology

By: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

Popular Patristics Series Volume 53 The Chapters on Theology is one of Maximus' most eclectic writings. In this short piece, Maximus discusses many diverse themes, including God's relation to the cosmos, monastic discipline and life, scriptural difficulties, and his vision of the consummated universe in relation to the incarnate Word of God. The work is arranged into two hundred "chapters," which are often pithy pearls of wisdom coming from the respected figure of an elder or abbot. Chapters tend to address a range of issues monks would face in the course of their spiritual progress. As such, chapters differ in complexity, although many exhibit intentional ambiguities in order to speak meaningfully with the same sentence to those at different points in their spiritual journey. The wisdom of these ancient words has transcended its time and place and continues to be an inspirational piece, the insights of which are just as applicable today as they were nearly a millennium and a half ago.

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0881415189

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Maximus Confessor

Maximus Confessor

St. Maximus the Confessor's "Questions and Doubts"

St. Maximus the Confessor's "Questions and Doubts"

St. Maximus the Confessor's "Questions and Doubts"

St. Maximus the Confessor's "Questions and Doubts"

Maximus Confessor

Maximus Confessor

On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture

On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture

On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ

On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ

The Ascetic Life

The Ascetic Life

On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy

On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy

Ambigua to Thomas

Ambigua to Thomas

To the God sent scholastic

To the God sent scholastic

On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: Ambigua to John, 23-71

On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: Ambigua to John, 23-71

Two Hundred Chapters on Theology

Two Hundred Chapters on Theology

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