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On Difficulties in the Church Fathers

The Ambigua

by Maximos the confessor

  • Hardback
  • 544 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • 14.2 x 20.3 x 3 cm

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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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  • Author

    Maximos the confessor

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Harvard University Press

  • Published

    April 2014

  • Weight

    612g

  • Page Count

    544

  • Dimensions

    14.2 x 20.3 x 3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780674726666

  • ISBN-10

    0674726669

  • Eden Code

    4267343

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