Description
Maximus the Confessor's combustive historical era, committed doctrinal re flection,
and loud and infl uential voice took him on a turbulent career of traveling and
writing around the Mediterranean. Maximus was a spiritual teacher, an ascetic
and a contemplative, but he was also a polemicist, a crafter of dogma, an
embattled Christologian, a premeditating rhetorician.
In this study, Luke Steven binds together
these two disparate sides of the man and his writings by showing that
throughout his oeuvre the Confessor positions imitation as the key to
knowledge. This lasting epistemology characterizes his earlier ascetic and
spiritual works, and in his later works it prominently defines his dogmatic
Christological method - that is, the means by which he communicates and
persuades and brings people to understand and encounter Jesus Christ, the one
with two natures, divine and human. This multifaceted study offers a deep
assessment of Maximus's forebears, new insight on the animating assumptions of
his thought, and an unprecedented focus on the rhetoric and method of his
christological writings.
Details
Publisher - The Lutterworth Press
Author(s) - Luke Steven
Paperback
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780227177525
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Page Count - 227
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