Byzantine Gospel: Maximus the Confessor in Modern Scholarship

by Aidan Nichols

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 1993

Overview

Byzantine Gospel is a general survey of all the major studies of the thought and theology of Maximus, increasingly regarded as representing the summit of the Greek patristic tradition.

Contents

Top Highlights

“man is called to annul divisions in the world morally not ontologically.^{10” (Page 123)}

“Maximus contrasts the principle of nature, logos physeôs, with the modality of existence, tropos hyparxeôs: the abiding divine intention for a particular nature with its variable manners of realisation.” (Page 130)

“synthesis of affirmation and negation: the twist Maximus gives to Denys’ theological epistemology” (Page 63)

“the irreducibility of the hypostatic order, the order of personhood, to that of nature.” (Page 132)

“the Word Incarnate as the living synthesis of all apophasis and cataphasis” (Page 63)

Product Details

• Title: Byzantine Gospel: Maximus the Confessor in Modern Scholarship
• Author: Aidan Nichols
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 1993
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Maximus, Confessor, Saint, approximately 580-662; Theology, doctrinal › History--Early church, ca. 30-600
• ISBNs: 0567096513, 9780567096517
• Resource ID: LLS:BYZNTNEGSPL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:15:35Z

About Aidan Nichols

John Christopher “Aidan” Nichols OP (born 17 September 1948) is an academic and Catholic priest. Nichols served as the first John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University for 2006 to 2008, the first lectureship of Catholic theology at that university since the Reformation. He is a member of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) and was formerly the Prior of St Michael and All Angels in Cambridge.