On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture [electronic resource] : The Responses to Thalassios / St. Maximos the Confessor ; translated by Fr. Maximos Constas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maximus, Confessor, Saint, approximately 580-662, author.

Contributor:

Constas, Maximos, 1961- translator.

Series:

Fathers of the church ; v. 136.

Fathers of the church: a new translation ; volume 136

Standardized Title:

Quaestiones ad Thalassium. English (Maximos of Simonopetra)

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

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

Maximus.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xx, 583 pages).)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2018]

Language Note:

Text in English, translated from the original Greek; introduction and notes in English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xx) and indexes.

Translation of: Quaestiones ad Thalassium.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8132-3032-2

OCLC:

1035063055