On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy
On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy

Author: Saint Maximus the Confessor

Publisher: Popular Patristics Series

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780881416473

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"St Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) expounds the meaning of the Divine Liturgy in On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy. He draws on the tradition of the Celestial Hierarchy by Dionysius the Areopagite, and influences the subsequent tradition, beginning with St Germanus of Constantinople's commentary. Maximus situates his understanding of the liturgy within his bold synthetic theological vision, seeing Christ the Logos of the God reflected and manifested in the logoi of created things. For Maximus, all things are interrelated-the material and the spiritual, God and man, earth and heaven-and cohere in Christ (cf. Col 1.17)"--

Maximus Confessor
Maximus Confessor

Author: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780809126590

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This volume includes a translation of four spiritual treatises of Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662), plus an account of his trial. Included are The Four Hundred Chapters of Love, Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, Chapters on Knowledge, The Church's Mystagogy, and Trial of Maximus.

Maximus the Confessor
Maximus the Confessor

Author: Andrew Louth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-18

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1134814909

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St Maximus the Confessor, the greatest of Byzantine theologians, lived through the most catastrophic period the Byzantine Empire was to experience before the Crusades. This book introduces the reader to the times and upheavals during which Maximus lived. It discusses his cosmic vision of humanity and the role of the church. The study makes available a selection of Maximus' theological treaties many of them translated for the first time. The translations are accompanied by a lucid and informed introduction.

St. Maximus the Confessor's "Questions and Doubts"
St. Maximus the Confessor's

Author: Saint Maximus the Confessor

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-08-15

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1501755358

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Despina D. Prassas's translation of the Quaestiones et Dubia presents for the first time in English one of the Confessor's most significant contributions to early Christian biblical interpretation. Maximus the Confessor (580–662) was a monk whose writings focused on ascetical interpretations of biblical and patristic works. For his refusal to accept the Monothelite position supported by Emperor Constans II, he was tried as a heretic, his right hand was cut off, and his tongue was cut out. In his work, Maximus the Confessor brings together the patristic exegetical aporiai tradition and the spiritual-pedagogical tradition of monastic questions and responses. The overarching theme is the importance of the ascetical life. For Maximus, askesis is a lifelong endeavor that consists of the struggle and discipline to maintain control over the passions. One engages in the ascetical life by taking part in both theoria (contemplation) and praxis (action). To convey this teaching, Maximus uses a number of pedagogical tools including allegory, etymology, number symbolism, and military terminology. Prassas provides a rich historical and contextual background in her introduction to help ground and familiarize the reader with this work.

Ambrose of Milan's Method of Mystagogical Preaching
Ambrose of Milan's Method of Mystagogical Preaching

Author: Craig Alan Satterlee

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780814661857

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This book proposes a method of mystagogy based on the preaching of Ambrose of Milan. Chapter 1 establishes the need for mystagogy. chapter 2 lays out the historical context of Ambrose and his church. Chapters 3-8 are a series of six historical studies on Ambrose and his church that correspond to the components of a homiletic method. Chapter 9 proposes a method of mystagogy for the contemporary church based on Ambrose's preaching.

Seeing Through the Eyes of Faith
Seeing Through the Eyes of Faith

Author: Paul van Geest

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789042931985

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Part 1. Mystagogy, apologetics, rhetorics and polemics -- Part. 2. Mystagogy and the introduction to the creed -- Part. 3. Mystagogy and visual symbolism -- Part 4. Mystagogy, liturgical initiation and eucharist -- Part 5. Mystagogy, initiation and spiritual growth -- Part 6. Mystagogy and martyrdom.

On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy
On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy

Author: Jonathan J. Armstrong

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780881416527

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St Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) beautifully expounds the meaning of the Divine Liturgy in On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy, which had a profound influence on the subsequent tradition, beginning with St Germanus of Constantinople (PPS 8). Maximus' vision of the liturgy contemplates the interpenetrating relationships of all things with each other and with Christ, In whom all things cohere. The church building and the human being and the cosmos are all mutually related and symbolically reflect each other. Further, in the liturgy we enter into the mystery of Christ. As St Maximus puts it, "Let us not be absent from the holy Church of God because she contains such great mysteries of our salvation according to...the divine symbols performed there. Through these mysteries, the Church fashions each one into the image of Christ...and she reveals the gift of adoption that is given through holy baptism in the Holy Spirit and that perfects each one into the image of Christ."

On the Divine Liturgy
On the Divine Liturgy

Author: Saint Germanus I (Patriarch of Constantinople)

Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780881410389

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"The eighth-century document Historia Ecclesiastica of Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople (715-730) was for centuries the quasi-official explanation of the Divine Liturgy for the Byzantine Christian world. Although "allegorical" in content, its interest lies in its historical value, for it appeared at a time of great flux in the life of the Byzantine Church, at the outbreak of the iconoclastic controversies, a period which marked a strong shift in theology and piety. The theological significance of this document and its usefulness in understanding the form of the liturgy celebrated in the eighth century is discussed in an extensive introduction by the translator, Paul Meyendorff. The introduction includes an exposition on mystagogical catecheses and the development of an historicizing system of liturgical symbolism. This title is part of the Popular Patristics series."--

Two Hundred Chapters on Theology
Two Hundred Chapters on Theology

Author: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780881415186

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Popular Patristics Series Volume 53 The Chapters on Theology is one of Maximus' most eclectic writings. In this short piece, Maximus discusses many diverse themes, including God's relation to the cosmos, monastic discipline and life, scriptural difficulties, and his vision of the consummated universe in relation to the incarnate Word of God. The work is arranged into two hundred "chapters," which are often pithy pearls of wisdom coming from the respected figure of an elder or abbot. Chapters tend to address a range of issues monks would face in the course of their spiritual progress. As such, chapters differ in complexity, although many exhibit intentional ambiguities in order to speak meaningfully with the same sentence to those at different points in their spiritual journey. The wisdom of these ancient words has transcended its time and place and continues to be an inspirational piece, the insights of which are just as applicable today as they were nearly a millennium and a half ago.

On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ
On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ

Author: Saint Maximus (Confessor)

Publisher: RSM Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780881412499

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This volume provides translations from St. Maximus' two main collections of theological reflections - his Ambigua (or Difficulties) and his Questions to Thalassius - plus one of his Christological opuscula, previously unavailable in English. The translations are accompanied by notes. --from back cover.