Ever-moving repose : a contemporary reading of Maximus the Confessor's theory of time / Sotiris Mitralexis ; foreword by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitralexis, Sotiris, 1988- author.

Contributor:

Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1940- writer of foreword.

Series:

Veritas series (Cascade Books) ; 24.

Veritas series ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maximus, Confessor, Saint, approximately 580-662.

Maximus.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Physical Description:

xix, 236 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2017]

Summary:

Sotiris Mitralexis offers a contemporary look at Maximus the Confessor's (580-662 CE) understanding of temporality, logoi, and deification, through the perspective of contemporary philosopher and theologian Christos Yannaras, as well as John Zizioulas and Nicholas Loudovikos. Mitralexis argues that Maximus possesses both a unique theological ontology and a unique threefold theory of temporality: time, the Aeon, and the radical transformation of temporality and motion in an ever-moving repose. With these three distinct modes of temporality, a Maximian theory of time can be reconstructed, which can be approached via his teaching on the logoi and deification. In this theory, time is not merely measuring ontological motion, but is more particularly measuring a relationship, the consummation of which effects the transformation of time into a dimensionless present devoid of temporal, spatial, and generally ontological distance-thereby manifesting a perfect communion-in-otherness. In examining Maximian temporality, the book is not focusing on only one aspect of Maximus' comprehensive Weltanschauung, but looks at the Maximian vision as a whole through the lens of temporality and motion. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Introducing Maximus the Confessor-and Our Contemporary Perspective

1 Maximus the Confessor 3

2 Hermeneutic Tools in Approaching Maximus: Christos Yannaras' Ontology 16

3 Ontological, Epistemological, Anthropological Themes in Maximus 42

4 Maximus' "Logical" Ontology: The λογοι of Beings 76

Part 2 Maximus the Confessor's Understanding of Motion and Temporality

5 Motion and Time in Aristotle's Physics as a Precursor to Maximus' Definition of Time 93

6 Maximus' Philosophy of Motion 109

7 Introducing Maximus' Conception of Time 125

8 The Fundamentals of Temporality, Spatiality, and Motion: Sections 35-40 from the Tenth "Difficulty" 134

9 Inverted Temporality: The Aeon 164

10 Ever-Moving Repose 192.

Notes:

Revised version of the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Freie Universit�at Berlin's Institute of Philosophy, 2014.

Includes bibliograpical references and index.

ISBN:

9781532607035

1532607032

1532607059

9781532607059

OCLC:

970783686

Publisher Number:

99972580246