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Paul M. Blowers

Maximus the Confessor

Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World

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This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium's turbulent seventh century, the monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor (580-662). Building on newer biographical research and a growing international body of scholarship, as well as on fresh examination of his diverse literary corpus, Paul Blowers develops a profile integrating the two principal initiatives of Maximus's career: first, his reinterpretation of thechristocentric economy of creation and salvation as a framework for expounding the spiritual and ascetical life of monastic and non-monastic Christians; and second, his intensifying public invo… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-106881-2
  • EAN: 9780191068812
  • Produktnummer: 19558088
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 368 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 901 KB

Über den Autor


Paul M. Blowers holds the Ph.D. in patristics and early Christian studies from the University of Notre Dame, and since 1989 has taught church history and historical theology at Emmanuel Christian Seminary in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he is currently the Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History. He is principally a scholar of Greek and Byzantine patristics, and particularly of the theology of Maximus the Confessor, but he has also taught broadly in the field ofchurch history and Christian thought. He is a Past President of the North American Patristics Society and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies. Author, editor, or translator of six books in early church history, he has published numerous journalarticles.

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