GERMAN

Verleiblichung und Synergie: Grundzüge der Bibelhermeneutik bei Maximus Confessor

By Assaad Elias Kattan

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publisher
Year
2002
ISBN
9004126694, 9789004126695
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (17261325 bytes)
Series
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 63
Pages
lxvi+323\394
Topic
Religion
Time added
2018-03-02 19:16:03
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Description

This volume examines the biblical hermeneutics of Maximus the Confessor (579/580-662). Although some aspects of the Confessor's hermeneutical approach had already been tackled, a comprehensive analysis was still missing. Accordingly, this book fills a gap in Patristic studies. The study consists of three chapters. The first one deals with the logoi theory of Maximus being the ontological nucleus around which his whole theological thinking is organized. The second chapter examines Maximus' understanding of mystical ascension. Equipped with the "ontological" and "mystical" foundation, the third chapter analyzes thoroughly the hermeneutics of Maximus as such, attempting to show its coherence and rootedness in the general christological perspective of the Confessor. This book will be of benefit not only for byzantinists and patrologists, but also for biblical scholars interested in the history of hermeneutics and exegesis as well as for historians of philosophy and medieval ideas.

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