Abstract
The article deals with Maximus the Confessor’s polemics with Tritheism. It focuses on analysis of one place in his Centuries on Charity (Char. 2.29). Sources are identified and analyzed, together with Maximus’ “policy” of citation. Comparison is made between some key elements of Maximus’ and Philoponus’ Trinitarian teaching and the way Maximus appropriated the Trinitarian doctrine of the Cappadocians (mainly Gregory of Nazianzus) is analyzed. The article also demonstrates the importance of Maximus’ polemics against the Tritheists in the development of his Trinitarian teaching. It shows that Maximus’ “paradoxical” model of the Trinity was a kind of an answer to Philoponus’ rational model.
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- Titelei
- Maximus Confessor’s polemics against Tritheism and his Trinitarian teaching
- Eustratios of Nicaea on thunder and lightning
- Ausgewählte Lesefrüchte zur byzantinischen Lexikographie
- The Serres Icon of Saints Theodores
- Anselm of Havelberg’s use of authorities in his account of the Filioque
- Scoli metrici a Pindaro in Terra d’Otranto: il Laurentianus Plut. LXXII, 14 ed il Vaticanus gr. 1019
- The Sacred Arsenal and the manuscripts Monac. gr. 229 and Paris. gr. 1301
- Die Datierung und die Funktion einer Kleinbronze mit paganen und christlichen Merkmalen
- Syriac sources for Byzantinists: an introduction and overview
- Δηλώσω σοι γὰρ τὰς αὐτοῦ πράξεις (DAG1.13) / A note on the order of clitic pronouns and particles in the Grottaferrata Digenis Akritis
- Ein wiederentdecktes Argyrobull des Despotes Theodoros Palaiologos
- Was Michael Attaleiates present at the battle of Mantzikert?
- II. ABTEILUNG
- III. ABTEILUNG. Bibliographische Notizen und Mitteilungen
- Totentafel
- Autoren- und Herausgeberverzeichnis zur Bibliographie Band 105, Heft 1 und 2
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Maximus Confessor’s polemics against Tritheism and his Trinitarian teaching
- Eustratios of Nicaea on thunder and lightning
- Ausgewählte Lesefrüchte zur byzantinischen Lexikographie
- The Serres Icon of Saints Theodores
- Anselm of Havelberg’s use of authorities in his account of the Filioque
- Scoli metrici a Pindaro in Terra d’Otranto: il Laurentianus Plut. LXXII, 14 ed il Vaticanus gr. 1019
- The Sacred Arsenal and the manuscripts Monac. gr. 229 and Paris. gr. 1301
- Die Datierung und die Funktion einer Kleinbronze mit paganen und christlichen Merkmalen
- Syriac sources for Byzantinists: an introduction and overview
- Δηλώσω σοι γὰρ τὰς αὐτοῦ πράξεις (DAG1.13) / A note on the order of clitic pronouns and particles in the Grottaferrata Digenis Akritis
- Ein wiederentdecktes Argyrobull des Despotes Theodoros Palaiologos
- Was Michael Attaleiates present at the battle of Mantzikert?
- II. ABTEILUNG
- III. ABTEILUNG. Bibliographische Notizen und Mitteilungen
- Totentafel
- Autoren- und Herausgeberverzeichnis zur Bibliographie Band 105, Heft 1 und 2