The whole mystery of Christ : creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor / Jordan Daniel Wood ; foreword by John Behr.
2022
BR65.M416 .W663 2022
Linked e-resources
Linked Resource
Online Access
Details
Title
The whole mystery of Christ : creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor / Jordan Daniel Wood ; foreword by John Behr.
ISBN
9780268203474
9780268203504
9780268203504
Published
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxv, 356 pages).
Call Number
BR65.M416 .W663 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
232.1
Summary
"Jordan Daniel Wood changes the trajectory of patristic scholarship with this comprehensive historical and systematic study of one of the most creative and profound thinkers of the patristic era: Maximus Confessor (560-662 CE). Wood's panoramic vantage on Maximus's thought emulates the theological depth of Hans Urs von Balthasar's Cosmic Liturgy while also serving as a corrective to that classic text. Maximus's theological vision may be summed up in his enigmatic assertion that 'the Word of God, very God, wills always and in all things to actualize the mystery of his Incarnation.' The Whole Mystery of Christ sets out to explicate this claim. Attentive to the various contexts in which Maximus thought and wrote--including the wisdom of earlier church fathers, conciliar developments in Christological and Trinitarian doctrine, monastic and ascetic ways of life, and prominent contemporary philosophical traditions--the book explores the relations between God's act of creation and the Word's historical Incarnation, between the analogy of being and Christology, and between history and the Fall, in addition to treating such topics as grace, deification, theological predication, and the ontology of nature versus personhood. Perhaps uniquely among Christian thinkers, Wood argues, Maximus envisions creatio ex nihilo as creatio ex Deo in the event of the Word's kenosis: the mystery of Christ is the revealed identity of the Word's historical and cosmic Incarnation."--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Added Author
Behr, John, writer of foreword.
Available in Other Form
Whole mystery of Christ : creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor.
Linked Resources
Online Access
Record Appears in
Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
All Resources
Table of Contents
The God-world relation in modern Maximus scholarship
The middle: Christo-logic
The beginning: word becomes world
The end: world becomes Trinity
The whole: creation as Christ
The whole mystery of Christ.
The middle: Christo-logic
The beginning: word becomes world
The end: world becomes Trinity
The whole: creation as Christ
The whole mystery of Christ.