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Divine scripture and human emotion in Maximus the Confessor : exegesis of the human heart

By Andrew J. , Confessor Saint Maximus; Summerson

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2021
ISBN
9789004446557, 9004446559
ISSN
1542-1295
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
952 kB (974784 bytes)
Series
The Bible in ancient Christianity volume15
Pages
0\159
Time added
2021-01-04 09:17:05
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Description

"In Exegesis of the Human Heart Andrew J. Summerson explores how Maximus the Confessor uses biblical interpretation to develop an account of human passibility, from fallen human passions to perfected human emotions among the divinized. This book features Maximus's role as a creative interpreter of tradition. Maximus inherits Christian thinking on emotion, which revises Stoic and Platonic thought according to biblical categories. Through a close reading of Quaestiones ad Thalassium and a wide selection of Maximus's works, Andrew J. Summerson shows that Maximus understands human emotion in an exegetical milieu and that Maximus places human emotion at the heart of his soteriology. Christ redeems passibility so the divinized can enjoy perfected emotional activity in the ever-moving repose of eternal life"--  Read more...

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