Divine scripture and human emotion in Maximus the Confessor
Subtitle: exegesis of the human heart
By: by Andrew J. Summerson
Series: The Bible in ancient Christianity -- volume15; Bible in ancient Christianity -- v.15
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9789004445963; 9789004446557
Subjects: Emotions; Religious aspects; Christianity; History of doctrines
Description: "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"--
Notes: Revised version of thesis (S.Th.D.) Pontifical Patristic Institute "Augustinianum", Rome, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Maximus the Monk, interpreter of tradition; title: The Pssions in Quaestiones ad Thalassium: the ascetic unity of the Biblical questions; title: Fear: the teacher of eternal awe; title: A grief observed frm the horizon of eternity; title: The relationship between love and eschatological apatheia.