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On difficulties in Sacred Scripture :

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0813230314

(Number (ISBN

9780813230313

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On difficulties in Sacred Scripture :

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[Book]

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the responses to Thalassios /

First Statement of Responsibility

St. Maximos the Confessor ; translated by Fr. Maximos Constas, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School Of Theology.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Washington, D.C. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Catholic University of America Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xx, 583 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Series Title

The Fathers of the Church, a new translation ;

Volume Designation

volume 136

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

I. Maximos the Confessor and the Quaestiones ad Thalassium -- II. Date and literary genre -- III. Thalassios the Libyan -- IV. The responses to Thalassios -- V. The passions as hermeneutical crisis -- VI. Stages of spiritual progress -- VII. Scripture and creation -- VIII. The transfiguration of Christ -- IX. The interpretation of scripture -- X. The scholia -- XI. A note on the text and translation -- On difficulties in Sacred Scripture: the responses to Thalassios.

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"Maximos the Confessor (ca. 580-662) is now widely recognized as one of the greatest theological thinkers, not simply in the entire canon of Greek patristic literature, but in the Christian tradition as a whole. A peripatetic monk and prolific writer, his penetrating theological vision found expression in an unparalleled synthesis of biblical exegesis, ascetic spirituality, patristic theology, and Greek philosophy, which is as remarkable for its conceptual sophistication as for its labyrinthine style of composition. On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture, presented here for the first time in a complete English translation (including the 465 scholia), contains Maximos's virtuosic theological interpretations of sixty-five difficult passages from the Old and New Testaments. Because of its great length, along with its linguistic and conceptual difficulty, the work as a whole has been largely neglected. Yet alongside the Ambigua to John, On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios deserves to be ranked as the Confessor's greatest work and one of the most important patristic treatises on the interpretation of Scripture, combining the interconnected traditions of monastic devotion to the Bible, the biblical exegesis of Origen, the sophisticated symbolic theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, and the rich spiritual anthropology of Greek Christian asceticism inspired by the Cappadocian Fathers"--front flap.

General Material Designation

Quaestiones ad Thalassium.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Version (or Date of Version)

(Constas)

Parallel Title

St. Maximos the Confessor, On difficulties in Sacred Scripture

Parallel Title

Responses to Thalassios

Maximus,approximately 580-662., Quaestiones ad Thalassium.

Bible-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Quaestiones ad Thalassium (Maximus, Confessor, Saint)

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Maximus,Confessor, Saint,approximately 580-662

Constas, Maximos,1961-

Date of Transaction

20200822133643.0

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