Maximos the Confessor, The Ambigua (PATR 7810)
Term: Academic Year 2014-2015 Fall
Faculty
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Schedule
Wed, 6:40 PM - 9:00 PM (9/2/2014 - 12/19/2014) Location: MAIN CLASS 223
Description
The Ambigua (or "Book of Difficulties") is Saint Maximos the Confessor's greatest philosophical and doctrinal work. Through a close reading of the text, this course studies the Confessor's refutation of Origenism; his cosmology and doctrine of the logoi; his theological anthropology (with special emphasis on his doctrine of divinization); his philosophy of language, and his understanding of the three stages of practical, natural, and theological contemplation. This course takes advantage of the new, first-ever critical edition and English translation of the Ambigua.