By Nevena Dimitrova
ISBN-10: 1498285600
ISBN-13: 9781498285605
ISBN-10: 1625645740
ISBN-13: 9781625645746
These quite a few kinds of wisdom play a massive, yet as but unexplored position in Maximus the Confessor's educating on God, which in lots of respects seems to be a synthesis and fruits of the Greek patristic culture and the antecedent of historic pre-Christian and Christian philosophy.
Focus in this challenge brings forth the foremost problems with Maximus' psychology: the "soul-body" dating and a close exam of the cognitive capacities of the soul, together with the belief of the senses, rational task, and operations of the brain. The indivisibility of the gnoseological matters from medieval guy is traced in an exam of the cognitive degrees in the trichotomic constitution of functional philosophy, normal contemplation, and theology. the 2 methods--both affirmative (cataphatic) and unfavourable (apophatic)--demonstrate the 2 rational discourses in human wisdom of God. targeted awareness is given to the knowledge of hexis (ἕξις) and gnomi (γνώμη) thoughts and their the most important position within the cognitive constitution, resulting in wisdom of God as Goodness and of God as Truth.
"Through her meticulous studying of St. Maximus the Confessor, Dimitrova demonstrates convincingly how his realizing of human wisdom is significant to his brooding about normal elements of his theology--Christology, ascetical lifestyles, virtues, and eschatology. Her research of this understudied point of the concept of St. Maximus extends our personal wisdom of 1 of the best minds in jap and Western Christian thought. She makes an incredible contribution to the transforming into scholarship on St. Maximus."
--Aristotle "Telly" Papanikolaou, Professor of Theology, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and tradition; Co-founding Director, Orthodox Christian experiences Center
"Nevena Dimitrova's e-book specializes in fascinating questions. who're we as realizing beings? How will we comprehend issues approximately God, the realm, and ourselves? Returning to St. Maximus the Confessor, she explores the connection among the divine and human conversation, sensible and contemplative understanding, and such a lot of all, the method of the recovery of that human nature which, in Christ, embraces the adventure of goodness and truth."
--Ivana Noble, Professor of Ecumenical Theology, Charles college, Prague
Nevena Dimitrova is a postdoctoral pupil of Charles collage in Prague. She accomplished her PhD on Byzantine philosophy on the universities of Sofia, Leuven, and Cologne.
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