Philanthropia as Skopos of the Incarnation: The Deifying Vocation of Humanity in Maximus the Confessor

Maximus the Confessor's belief that the Incarnation would have happened without a Fall is a key facet of his thought, yet contradicts portions of his corpus which state that God became human due to sin. I assert that Maximus affirms a prelapsarian motive of the Incarnation for two reasons: his...

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Main Author: Marco, Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2024
In: Heythrop journal
Year: 2024, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-80
IxTheo Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages
NBC Doctrine of God
NBE Anthropology
NBF Christology
NBK Soteriology
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