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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... like any theologian (or indeed any other kind of thinker) of Late Antiquity or the Byzantine period, was concerned simply to record the truth that had always been known and, he believed, generally better expressed by.
... like any theologian (or indeed any other kind of thinker) of Late Antiquity or the Byzantine period, was concerned simply to record the truth that had always been known and, he believed, generally better expressed by.
Strona viii
... expressed by the 'Fathers', from whom he had received his faith. This he did in a particular historical situation, during the first century of the Arab Empire, ruled by the Caliph, whose servant he had been before embracing the monastic ...
... expressed by the 'Fathers', from whom he had received his faith. This he did in a particular historical situation, during the first century of the Arab Empire, ruled by the Caliph, whose servant he had been before embracing the monastic ...
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... expressed: Theophanes records the Jacobites and Theodosians (the local names for those who rejected Chalcedon in Syria and Egypt respectively) boasting, 'It is not we who have communicated with Chalcedon, but rather Chalcedon with us by ...
... expressed: Theophanes records the Jacobites and Theodosians (the local names for those who rejected Chalcedon in Syria and Egypt respectively) boasting, 'It is not we who have communicated with Chalcedon, but rather Chalcedon with us by ...
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... and eventually Muslims. This Christian Orthodoxy was not the expression of human triumphalism, but something fashioned in the crucible of defeat. 2 St John Damascene and Tradition There are two ways 14 FAITH AND LIFE.
... and eventually Muslims. This Christian Orthodoxy was not the expression of human triumphalism, but something fashioned in the crucible of defeat. 2 St John Damascene and Tradition There are two ways 14 FAITH AND LIFE.
Strona 15
... expressed as reflections—or commentary—on already existing tradition. But John was no Maximos. John developed a tradition of learning that knew where to look in the Fathers for answers to all theological questions, and he responded to ...
... expressed as reflections—or commentary—on already existing tradition. But John was no Maximos. John developed a tradition of learning that knew where to look in the Fathers for answers to all theological questions, and he responded to ...
Spis treści
Faith and Logic | 29 |
Faith and Images | 191 |
Epilogue | 283 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Index of Citations | 307 |
General Index | 317 |
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