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- On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: The Catholic University of America Press
- Series: The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Bibliography
- pp. xiii-xx
- Introduction
- II. Date and Literary Genre
- pp. 5-8
- III. Thalassios the Libyan
- pp. 8-12
- IV. The Responses to Thalassios
- pp. 12-21
- VI. Stages of Spiritual Progress
- pp. 25-29
- VII. Scripture and Creation
- pp. 29-32
- VIII. The Transfiguration of Christ
- pp. 32-37
- IX. The Interpretation of Scripture
- pp. 37-51
- X. The Scholia
- pp. 52-57
- On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios
- Question 1.
- pp. 94-96
- Question 2.
- pp. 97-99
- Question 3.
- pp. 100-103
- Question 4.
- pp. 104-105
- Question 5.
- pp. 106-107
- Question 6.
- pp. 108-110
- Question 7.
- pp. 111-112
- Question 8.
- p. 113
- Question 9.
- pp. 114-115
- Question 10.
- pp. 116-119
- Question 11.
- pp. 120-121
- Question 12.
- p. 122
- Question 13.
- pp. 123-125
- Question 14.
- p. 126
- Question 15.
- pp. 127-129
- Question 16.
- pp. 130-133
- Question 17.
- pp. 134-136
- Question 18.
- p. 137
- Question 19.
- pp. 138-139
- Question 20.
- pp. 140-142
- Question 21.
- pp. 143-149
- Question 22.
- pp. 150-156
- Question 23.
- pp. 157-160
- Question 24.
- pp. 161-162
- Question 25.
- pp. 163-171
- Question 26.
- pp. 172-181
- Question 27.
- pp. 182-189
- Question 28.
- pp. 190-195
- Question 29.
- pp. 196-199
- Question 30.
- pp. 200-201
- Question 31.
- pp. 202-203
- Question 32.
- pp. 204-206
- Question 33.
- pp. 207-209
- Question 34.
- pp. 210-211
- Question 35.
- pp. 212-214
- Question 36.
- pp. 215-217
- Question 37.
- pp. 218-222
- Question 38.
- pp. 223-225
- Question 39.
- pp. 226-229
- Question 40.
- pp. 230-237
- Question 41.
- pp. 238-240
- Question 42.
- pp. 241-245
- Question 43.
- pp. 246-248
- Question 44.
- pp. 249-252
- Question 45.
- pp. 253-254
- Question 46.
- pp. 255-256
- Question 47.
- pp. 257-266
- Question 48.
- pp. 267-279
- Question 49.
- pp. 280-296
- Question 50.
- pp. 297-304
- Question 51.
- pp. 305-316
- Question 52.
- pp. 317-325
- Question 53.
- pp. 326-332
- Question 54.
- pp. 333-354
- Question 55.
- pp. 355-388
- Question 56.
- pp. 389-398
- Question 57.
- pp. 399-401
- Question 58.
- pp. 402-411
- Question 59.
- pp. 412-426
- Question 60.
- pp. 427-433
- Question 61.
- pp. 434-449
- Question 62.
- pp. 450-464
- Question 63.
- pp. 465-486
- Question 64.
- pp. 487-518
- Question 65.
- pp. 519-558
- Indices
- General Index
- pp. 561-572
- Index of Holy Scripture
- pp. 573-580
- Index of Greek Words
- pp. 581-584
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813230320
Related ISBN(s)
9780813230313
MARC Record
OCLC
1035063055
Pages
592
Launched on MUSE
2018-05-28
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018