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Two Hundred Chapters on Theology: Translation (Popular Patristics Series)

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, 2015
ISBN: 9780881415186
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The Chapters on Theology is one of Maximus’ most eclectic writings. In this short piece, Maximus discusses many diverse themes, including God’s relation to the cosmos, monastic discipline and life, scriptural difficulties, and his vision of the consummated universe in relation to the incarnate Word of God. The work is arranged into two hundred “chapters,” which are often pithy pearls of wisdom that monks could learn from the respected figure of an elder or abbot. Chapters tend to address a range of issues monks would face in the course of their spiritual progress. As such, chapters differ in complexity, although many exhibit intentional ambiguities in order to speak meaningfully with the same sentence to those at different points in their spiritual journey. The wisdom of these ancient words has transcended its time and place, and continues to be an inspirational piece, the insights of which are just as applicable today as they were nearly a millennium and a half ago. This resource contains the English translation by Luis Joshua Salés.

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“since <he is> inaccessible to everyone and not discernible to any being as a result of natural reflection.” (Page 43)

“It is not necessary for him who is being inducted into piety to be led to the practice of the commandments by kindness alone, but also, in fact, for him to contend more often with rigor by the reminder of the divine retributions, for him not only to love divine things with desire, but also for him to abstain from vice with fear: For ‘I will sing to you, oh Lord, about mercy and judgment,’351 that he might sing to God delighted by desire, and have strength for the song, hardened by fear.” (Page 179)

“The public warning in the inscription about the Savior’s crime clearly showed the crucified man to be King and Lord of practical, natural, and theological philosophy. For they say the inscription had been written in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.347 And by Latin I understand practical philosophy, since according to Daniel348 the kingdom of the Romans had been appointed to be more courageous than all the other kingdoms on the earth; since a property of practical philosophy, among other things, is courage; and by Greek I understand natural contemplation, since the nation of the Greeks has dedicated itself to natural philosophy more than the rest of humanity. And by Hebrew I understand theological initiation, since this nation was clearly set up by God from above as the forbearers.” (Pages 177–179)

“It is necessary for us to be not only murderers of bodily passions, but also eradicators of impassioned thoughts in the soul, according to the holy man who said, ‘At dawn I killed all the sinners of the earth in order to eradicate from the city of the Lord all who commit lawlessness,’349 that is, the passions of the body and the lawless thoughts of the soul.” (Page 179)

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