The Ascetic Life, The Four Centuries on Charity #21
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Translated and Annotated by Polycarp Sherwood, O.S.B., S.T.D.
Translated and Annotated by Polycarp Sherwood, O.S.B., S.T.D.
Publication Data: New York, NY/Mahwah, NJ: Newman Press, 1955
Format: hardcover
Number of Pages: viii + 284
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.2 cm × 14.6 cm × 2.5 cm
ISBN: 0‒8091‒0258‒7
St. Maximus the Confessor
Translated and Annotated by Polycarp Sherwood, O.S.B., S.T.D.
No. 21 of Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation
“THE ASCETIC LIFE[...]: [...]The development is simple and springs directly from the nature of Christian life, particularly as the monk seeks to achieve it. It is above all the quest of salvation, that is, the Lord’s purpose is His Incarnation. It i by making this purpose our own and by fulfilling the commandments that we shall be saved, deified. [...]THE FOUR CENTURIES ON CHARITY[...]: [...]The form is that of gnomic or sententious literature[...]. Both the number 100 and the number of the centuries are significant: the first as a perfect number referring directly to the One, God; the other, in our case 4, as representing the four Gospels, whose commandment is that of love. This latter point Maximus himself notes in his preface. He also gives the reason for the sententious form: concision, facilitating the work of memory, that the monk may have a store of pithy sayings on which he may ruminate and develop at leisure[...].”
—“Introduction”
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Prefatory
I. Life
Theological position at the outset
Progress to and Establishment in Africa
Relations with Imperial Governors
Monothelite Controversy: the ‘Psephos’
Monothelite Controversy: the ‘Ecthesis’
Crisis: the Affair of Pyrrhus
Roman Activity
Arrest and Trials
II. Doctrine
a. God
The Triune God
b. Man
God and the World
The Constitution of the World and of Man
The Composite Nature of Man
Freedom
Man—Adam
c. Deification
Agents of Deification: The Church
The Sacraments
Asceticism and its Technique
Prayer and Contemplation
Charity
The Maximian Synthesis
III. Special Introduction
a. The Ascetic Life
b. The Four Centuries on Charity
TEXT
The Ascetic Life
The Four Centuries on Charity: Prologue
Century I
Century II
Century III
Century IV
NOTES
Bibliography
Notes on the Introduction
on The Ascetic Life
on The Four Centuries on Charity
INDEX
Format: hardcover
Number of Pages: viii + 284
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.2 cm × 14.6 cm × 2.5 cm
ISBN: 0‒8091‒0258‒7
St. Maximus the Confessor
Translated and Annotated by Polycarp Sherwood, O.S.B., S.T.D.
No. 21 of Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation
“THE ASCETIC LIFE[...]: [...]The development is simple and springs directly from the nature of Christian life, particularly as the monk seeks to achieve it. It is above all the quest of salvation, that is, the Lord’s purpose is His Incarnation. It i by making this purpose our own and by fulfilling the commandments that we shall be saved, deified. [...]THE FOUR CENTURIES ON CHARITY[...]: [...]The form is that of gnomic or sententious literature[...]. Both the number 100 and the number of the centuries are significant: the first as a perfect number referring directly to the One, God; the other, in our case 4, as representing the four Gospels, whose commandment is that of love. This latter point Maximus himself notes in his preface. He also gives the reason for the sententious form: concision, facilitating the work of memory, that the monk may have a store of pithy sayings on which he may ruminate and develop at leisure[...].”
—“Introduction”
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Prefatory
I. Life
Theological position at the outset
Progress to and Establishment in Africa
Relations with Imperial Governors
Monothelite Controversy: the ‘Psephos’
Monothelite Controversy: the ‘Ecthesis’
Crisis: the Affair of Pyrrhus
Roman Activity
Arrest and Trials
II. Doctrine
a. God
The Triune God
b. Man
God and the World
The Constitution of the World and of Man
The Composite Nature of Man
Freedom
Man—Adam
c. Deification
Agents of Deification: The Church
The Sacraments
Asceticism and its Technique
Prayer and Contemplation
Charity
The Maximian Synthesis
III. Special Introduction
a. The Ascetic Life
b. The Four Centuries on Charity
TEXT
The Ascetic Life
The Four Centuries on Charity: Prologue
Century I
Century II
Century III
Century IV
NOTES
Bibliography
Notes on the Introduction
on The Ascetic Life
on The Four Centuries on Charity
INDEX
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