Studies in Maximus the Confessor's Opuscula Theologica Et Polemica: Papers Collected on the Occasion of the Belgrade Colloquium on Saint Maximus, 3-4 ... Et Mediaevalia - Subsidia Maximiana, 89)

Opuscula theologica et polemica is a collection of minor works of Maximus the Confessor which has not received much scholarly attention so far. Yet it offers a unique insight in the Christological and personological universe of the Christian thinker. The present volume is the first attempt to bring together scholars of different traditions and to apply different approaches - theological, philosophical, philological and historical - to this seminal work. Front Matter 5 Vladimir Cvetković and Alexis Léonas. Introduction 9 Christian Boudignon. What Are the Opuscula theologica et polemica? A Philological Question 23 Bram Roosen. Maximian ἀπορίαι against the Monothelites 37 Bronwen Neil and Ryan W. Strickler. Letters of Maximus in the Collectanea of Anastasius Bibliothecarius: Opuscula 10, 12, and 20 65 Aleksandar Djakovac. Maximus’ Relational Ontology: πρός τι and σχέσις 85 Kevin M. Clarke. Maximus the Confessor’s Anti-Severan Polemics in the Opuscula 105 Sebastian Mateiescu. Arguing with the Properties of Christ: The Case of “Difference as in Natural Quality” and its Critical Reception by Maximus the Confessor 127 Romilo Aleksandar Knežević. Maximus’ Opuscula and the Concept of the Hypostatic Union: A Critical Interrogation of the Ontology of Absolute Non-Being 161 Miklós Vassányi. The Problem of Identity in St Maximus’ Opusculum 14: A Philosophical Analysis 201 Dionysios Skliris. The Ambiguity of the Gnomic Will as Basis for a Theory of Human Individuality in the Thought of Saint Maximus the Confessor 215 Back Matter 241 "'Opuscula theologica et polemica' is a collection of minor works of Maximus the Confessor that has not received much scholarly attention so far. Nevertheless, it offers a unique insight into the Christological and personological universe of the Christian thinker. The present volume is the first attempt to bring together scholars of different traditions and to apply different approaches - theological, philosophical, philological and historical - to this seminal work." 'Opuscula theologica et polemica' is a collection of minor works of Maximus the Confessor that has not received much scholarly attention so far. Yet it offers a unique insight into the Christological and personological universe of the Christian thinker. The present volume is the first attempt to bring together scholars of different traditions and to apply different approaches - theological, philosophical, philological and historical - to this seminal work