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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... fact, we know far more about the times of St John Damascene than about the events of his own life, and closer scrutiny of the sources in recent scholarship has only eroded the few fixed points that were thought to exist, without ...
... fact, we know far more about the times of St John Damascene than about the events of his own life, and closer scrutiny of the sources in recent scholarship has only eroded the few fixed points that were thought to exist, without ...
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... fact in the history of Europe and western Asia as far as northern India. In the course of this century two landmarks, clearly in place in the earliest history of the eastern Mediterranean world we possess—that of the Greek Herodotus ...
... fact in the history of Europe and western Asia as far as northern India. In the course of this century two landmarks, clearly in place in the earliest history of the eastern Mediterranean world we possess—that of the Greek Herodotus ...
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... fact that he died around 750 (see below) suggests a date in the latter half of the seventh century, but attempts to define the date more precisely (Kotter suggested 650, Nasrallah 655/60 11 ) depend on giving greater credence to the ...
... fact that he died around 750 (see below) suggests a date in the latter half of the seventh century, but attempts to define the date more precisely (Kotter suggested 650, Nasrallah 655/60 11 ) depend on giving greater credence to the ...
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... fact that it was not available at his monastery; secondly, its restrained use of patristic quotation, and greater reliance on arguments formulated by John himself. But, as the reader can see, the argument is in danger of becoming ...
... fact that it was not available at his monastery; secondly, its restrained use of patristic quotation, and greater reliance on arguments formulated by John himself. But, as the reader can see, the argument is in danger of becoming ...
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... fact, in which we see John not so much as shaped by tradition, but as one who has given shape to what others have received as tradition, especially in determining their perception of the theological achievement of what came to be ...
... fact, in which we see John not so much as shaped by tradition, but as one who has given shape to what others have received as tradition, especially in determining their perception of the theological achievement of what came to be ...
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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