Human Destiny and Divine Providence in Two Byzantine Authors of the Early Eighth Century
The well-being of a person was viewed by the Byzantines as a complex interplay of divine providence, guiding a person throughout his life to salvation, and his will, freely choosing between virtue and sin. Several solutions were given to the problem of misfortunes which might befall a person, since...
| Published in: | Scrinium |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Scrinium
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBK Europe (East) NBL Doctrine of Predestination |
| Further subjects: | B
Free Will
B Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople B Theophylact Simocatta B Providence B Theodicy B Mentalization B Basil of Caesarea B John of Damascus B Foreknowledge |
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| Summary: | The well-being of a person was viewed by the Byzantines as a complex interplay of divine providence, guiding a person throughout his life to salvation, and his will, freely choosing between virtue and sin. Several solutions were given to the problem of misfortunes which might befall a person, since they could not result from the actions of a good God: from ultimate non-involvement of God into the voluntary actions of humans, to pedagogical temporary "stepping aside" by God to demonstrate the futility of human actions which go against the best predestined course of life, to active divine intervention as "bitter medicine" for the correction of human wrongdoings and putting an end to uncorrected sin. These problems are discussed in the treatise On the Predestined Terms of Life by Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople and in the Dialogue against the Manichees by John of Damascus, who thoroughly adapted and reworked the Homily That God Is Not the Author of Evil by Basil of Caesarea for the discussion of theodicy. |
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| ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scrinium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00151P02 |