St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine TheologyOUP Oxford, 5 lip 2002 - 348 John Damascene, one-time senior civil servant in the Umayyad Arab Empire, became a monk near Jerusalem in the early years of the eighth century. He never set foot in the Byzantine Empire, yet his influence on Byzantine theology was ultimately determinative, and beyond that his theological work became a key resource for Western theology from Scholasticism to Romanticism. His searching criticism of Imperial Byzantine iconoclasm earned him harsh condemnation from the Byzantine iconoclasts. This is the first book to present an overall account of John's life and work; it makes use of recent scholarship about the transformation of the former Byzantine territories of the Middle East after the seventh-century Arab Conquest, and the new critical edition of the Damascene's prose works. It sets John's theological work in the context of the process of preserving, defining, defending, and also celebrating the Christian faith of the early synods of the Church that took place in the Palestinian monasteries during the first century of Arab rule. John's own contribution is explored in detail: his amazing three-part Fountain Head of Knowledge, which provided the logical tools for arguing theologically, outlined the multifarious forms of heresy, and set out with clarity and learning the fundamental doctrines of Orthodox Christianity; as well as his treatises against iconoclasm, his preaching, for which he was famous in his lifetime, and, the work for which he is most renowned in the Orthodox world, his sacred poetry that still graces the liturgy of the Orthodox Church. The life and thought of this subject of the Arab Caliphs, a Christian monk who thought of himself as a Byzantine, poses intriguing questions about identity in a rapidly changing world, and the deeply traditional nature of his presentation of Christian theology calls for reflection about the relationship between tradition and originality in theology. |
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... eastern and southern provinces of the Roman (or Byzantine) Empire and their defeat of the Persian Empire in the three decades after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632.1 This empire continued to 1. Life and Times.
... eastern and southern provinces of the Roman (or Byzantine) Empire and their defeat of the Persian Empire in the three decades after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632.1 This empire continued to 1. Life and Times.
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... death, condemned, mutilated, and in exile, in 662. After St Maximos's death, it was the monks of Palestine who almost alone in the East came to assume the role of guardians of Orthodoxy. For most of the eastern part of the Byzantine ...
... death, condemned, mutilated, and in exile, in 662. After St Maximos's death, it was the monks of Palestine who almost alone in the East came to assume the role of guardians of Orthodoxy. For most of the eastern part of the Byzantine ...
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... death. This fate he bewails, he says, not because he fears death, but because in the course of his life he has acquired much learning, and would like to pass it on to a disciple before he dies. As a result, John's father purchases ...
... death. This fate he bewails, he says, not because he fears death, but because in the course of his life he has acquired much learning, and would like to pass it on to a disciple before he dies. As a result, John's father purchases ...
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... death of the brother of one of his fellow-monks. In his grief, the monk begs John to write a funeral verse to comfort him. Mindful of his geron's command, John at first refuses, but then relents and composes a troparion (verse of ...
... death of the brother of one of his fellow-monks. In his grief, the monk begs John to write a funeral verse to comfort him. Mindful of his geron's command, John at first refuses, but then relents and composes a troparion (verse of ...
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Faith and Logic | 29 |
Faith and Images | 191 |
Epilogue | 283 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Index of Citations | 307 |
General Index | 317 |
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