scholarly journals Does the Flesh Possess Hypostatic Idioms, and If So, Why is it Then Not a Separate Hypostasis?

Scrinium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Dirk Krausmuller
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Problem ◽  
John Of Damascus ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Maximus The Confessor

Abstract This article focuses on a conceptual problem that arose from the application to Christology of the Cappadocian definition of hypostasis as substance with idioms. It discusses the solutions that were proposed by John of Caesarea, Leontius of Byzantium, John Philoponus, Leontius of Byzantium, Maximus the Confessor and John of Damascus.

After Chalcedon

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian E. Daley, SJ
Keyword(s):  
Eighth Century ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
John Of Damascus ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Orthodox Theology ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Maximus The Confessor ◽  
Severus Of Antioch

The Council of Chalcedon’s definition of the terms in which Nicene orthodoxy should conceive of Christ’s person remained controversial. Leontius of Byzantium argued for the correctness of the Council’s formulation, especially against the arguments of Severus of Antioch, but suggested that more than academic issues were at stake: the debate concerned the lived, permanently dialectical unity between God and humanity. In the mid-seventh century, imperially sponsored efforts to lessen the perceived impact of Chalcedonian language by stressing that Christ’s two natures were activated by “a single, theandric energy,” also remained without effect: largely because of the monk Maximus “the Confessor”, who argued that two complete spheres of activity and two wills remained evident in Christ’s life. Maximus’s position was ratified at the Lateran Synod and at the Third Council of Constantinople. The eighth-century Palestinian monk John of Damascus incorporated these arguments into his own influential synthesis of orthodox theology.

Hypostasis and an Icon

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galin Penev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
John Of Damascus ◽  
Definition Of

The article copes with two major notions of Christian philosophy “hypostasis“ and “icon“ which importance have increased for the last decades of continental philosophy. The author exercises how the first notion gives rise to the meaning of second one, the icon, by the work of St. John of Damascus on ontology of hypostases. In the report is claimed that the inversed perspective presents not subjective but a hypostatic “point of view”. The second part of report concerns some iconographic explication of the definition of icon exercised in the first part.

scholarly journals Philosophical, anthropological and axiological aspects of Constantine’s definition of philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Ján Zozuľak
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
John Of Damascus ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Image Of God

Abstract This paper focuses on the philosophical-ethical foundations of Constantine’s definition of philosophy, as well as its anthropological and axiological aspects. The focus is placed on the relationship between definitions of philosophy postulated by Constantine the Philosopher and John of Damascus, the latter of which traces the six classical definitions systematized by Platonic commentators. Byzantine thinkers proposed a method of unifying both the theoretical and practical aspects of ancient philosophy with a Christian way of life by interpreting the classical definitions of philosophy and dividing it into theoretical and practical parts, the latter including ethics. Constantine understood philosophy in the sense of the second (knowledge of things Divine and human) and the fourth (becoming like God) meanings of earlier definitions, with the addition of the Christian sense of acting in accordance with the image of God. In addition to these gnosiological and anthropological aspects, the paper also observes the axiological aspect of Constantine’s definition of philosophy, which appears to be a foundation for exploring human behaviour as in compliance with Christian laws encouraging changes in ethical principles so as to follow a new code of ethics, through which new values were presented to the Slavs.

scholarly journals Painting or relief: The ideal icon in iconophile writing in Byzantium

Zograf ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Bissera Pentcheva
Keyword(s):  
Image Theory ◽  
The Arts ◽  
John Of Damascus ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Ideal

This text is focused on the transformation of the definition of the icon in Byzantine image theory from an identification of graphe with painting in the writings of John of Damascus (ca. 675-754) to the equation of graphe with typos understood as the imprint of an intaglio on matter in the theory of Theodore Studies (759-826). The virtues of painting, therefore, are that its masters see their works admired and feel themselves to be almost like the Creator. Is it not true that painting is the mistress of all the arts or their principal ornament? If I am not mistaken, the architect took from the painter architrave's, capitals, bases, columns and pediments, and all other fine features of buildings. The stonemason, the sculptor, and all the workshops and crafts of artificers are guided by the rule and art of the painter. Indeed hardly any art, except the very meanest, can be found that does not somehow pertain to painting. So I would venture to assert that whatever beauty there is in things, it has been derived from painting.

La dynamique de la vie spirituelle chez saint Jean Climaque: un bref regard comparatif avec saint Grégoire de Nysse

2017 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ovidiu Sferlea
Keyword(s):  
Direct Influence ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Maximus The Confessor

AbstractThis article aims to make a comparison between the teaching of St. John Climacus and that of St. Gregory of Nyssa, with a specific focus on the complex of ideas related to perpetual progress. While one must proceed with caution, a number of close and significant parallels can nevertheless be indicated: a dynamic concept of spiritual perfection, the definition of virtue as limitless, the idea of a perpetual growth in love, and the inclusion of the angels in this progress. I suggest that the best way for explaining these analogies is to admit a (direct) influence of Gregory on John. As a consequence, John Climacus must be counted with a group of Eastern authors holding similar views that includes (Pseudo‐)Macarius, Maximus the Confessor, Symeon the New Theologian, Gregory of Sinai, Gregory Palamas and Kallistos Angelikoudes. These authors appear in fact to be witnesses of a tradition of thought that stems back to Gregory of Nyssa.

War and Militarization

2018 ◽  
pp. 382-398
Author(s):  
Jairus Grove
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Conceptual Problem ◽  
Complex Character ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter provides an overview of how warfare and militarization, as historical processes, have mutated and changed in parallel with and intersecting processes of globalization. Given the contradictory trajectory of less lethal wars that break out increasingly more frequently and last longer, it is necessary to revisit accepted definitions of war. The chapter provides insight into how to think about war as a conceptual problem rather than a discrete empirical phenomenon. Attempts to simplify war for the purposes of measuring it have created significant shortcomings in the fields of international relations, security studies, and war studies. This chapter does not attempt to develop a replacement definition. Instead, it is argued that the changing nature of war should be treated as a problematic for research and investigation rather than trying to settle on another definition of war that fails to keep up with the dynamic and complex character of empirical reality.

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