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On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios

by Maximus The Confessor, Fr. Maximos Constas

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 3.5 cm

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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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  • Author

    Maximus The Confessor

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Catholic University of America Press

  • Published

    May 2018

  • Weight

    759g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 3.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780813235714

  • ISBN-10

    0813235715

  • Eden Code

    5630954

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