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Divine Scripture and Human Emotion in Maximus the Confessor: Exegesis of the Human Heart (The Bible in Ancient Christianity, 15) - Hardcover

Book 5 of 18: The Bible in Ancient Christianity

Summerson, Andrew J.

 
9789004445963: Divine Scripture and Human Emotion in Maximus the Confessor: Exegesis of the Human Heart (The Bible in Ancient Christianity, 15)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 900444596X ISBN 13: 9789004445963
Publisher: Brill, 2021

Synopsis

In Exegesis of the Human Heart Andrew J. Summerson explores how Maximus the Confessor uses biblical interpretation to develop an account of human passibility, from fallen human passions to perfected human emotions among the divinized.
This book features Maximus’s role as a creative interpreter of tradition. Maximus inherits Christian thinking on emotion, which revises Stoic and Platonic thought according to biblical categories. Through a close reading of Quaestiones ad Thalassium and a wide selection of Maximus’s works, Andrew J. Summerson shows that Maximus understands human emotion in an exegetical milieu and that Maximus places human emotion at the heart of his soteriology. Christ redeems passibility so the divinized can enjoy perfected emotional activity in the ever-moving repose of eternal life.

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About the Author

Andrew J. Summerson (S.Th.D. Pontifical Patristic Institute “Augustinianum”) is lecturer in Theology at Calumet College of St. Joseph of Hammond, Indiana.

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Publisher
Brill
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
900444596X
ISBN 13 
9789004445963
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
160