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St John Damascene - Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology (Paperback, Revised)
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St John Damascene - Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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John Damascene, one-time senior civil servant in the Umayyad Arab
Empire, became a monk near Jerusalem in the early years of the
eighth century. He never set foot in the Byzantine Empire, yet his
influence on Byzantine theology was ultimately determinative, and
beyond that his theological work became a key resource for Western
theology from Scholasticism to Romanticism. His searching criticism
of Imperial Byzantine iconoclasm earned him harsh condemnation from
the Byzantine iconoclasts. This is the first book to present an
overall account of John's life and work; it makes use of recent
scholarship about the transformation of the former Byzantine
territories of the Middle East after the seventh-century Arab
Conquest, and the new critical edition of the Damascene's prose
works. It sets John's theological work in the context of the
process of preserving, defining, defending, and also celebrating
the Christian faith of the early synods of the Church that took
place in the Palestinian monasteries during the first century of
Arab rule. John's own contribution is explored in detail: his
amazing three-part Fountain Head of Knowledge, which provided the
logical tools for arguing theologically, outlined the multifarious
forms of heresy, and set out with clarity and learning the
fundamental doctrines of Orthodox Christianity; as well as his
treatises against iconoclasm, his preaching, for which he was
famous in his lifetime, and, the work for which he is most renowned
in the Orthodox world, his sacred poetry that still graces the
liturgy of the Orthodox Church. The life and thought of this
subject of the Arab Caliphs, a Christian monk who thought of
himself as a Byzantine, poses intriguing questions about identity
in a rapidly changing world, and the deeply traditional nature of
his presentation of Christian theology calls for reflection about
the relationship between tradition and originality in theology.
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