Creation is Incarnation: The Metaphysical Peculiarity of the Logoi in Maximus Confessor
Maximian logoi or the "principles" of created being are often virtually identified with Platonic ideas or forms. This assumption obscures what is distinctive about Maximus's concept of the logoi. I first note two metaphysical peculiarities of his doctrine, and then propose that these...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Modern theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 82-102 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maximus, Confessor, Heiliger 580-662
/ Platonism
/ Theory of ideas
/ Creation
/ Christology
/ Incarnation of Jesus Christ
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBD Doctrine of Creation NBF Christology VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Maximian logoi or the "principles" of created being are often virtually identified with Platonic ideas or forms. This assumption obscures what is distinctive about Maximus's concept of the logoi. I first note two metaphysical peculiarities of his doctrine, and then propose that these only make sense if we follow Maximus's own directive to read the logoi through Christology proper - that is, as describing creation as the Word's cosmic Incarnation. This suggests, in creative tension with a good deal of twentieth-century philosophical theology, that the God-world relation is not fully exhausted by the analogia entis: Maximus divines a still deeper hypostatic (not natural) identity between Word and world that actually generates natural difference - for perhaps the first and only time in the history of Christian thought. Here I assay a first step toward retrieving that relation. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12382 |