Category Archives: Maximus the Confessor

There are no pure bodies: The monotheistic spiritual naturalism of Anne Conway, part 2

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

[... continued from last post] ◊ Hutton, Sarah, Anne Conway : A Woman Philosopher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).  I referred to this book in my entry for David Byrne, whose work is in many ways comparable.  Both authors have … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal theology, Berdyaev, Nikolai, Conway, Anne, Maximus the Confessor, Philosophy (uncategorized), Rozanov, Vasily, Russian religious philosophy, Scandinavian creation theology, Science, History of, Shestov, Lev, Sittler, Joseph | 2 Comments

There are no pure bodies: The monotheistic spiritual naturalism of Anne Conway, part 1

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

The books I was waiting for, re: Anne Conway, have all arrived and I’ve been reading from them diligently.  By happenstance my discovery of Conway coincided with my receiving a “bonus” from my employer, and this enabled me to buy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal theology, Conway, Anne, Helmont, Francis Mercury van, Kabbalah, Løgstrup, K. E., Maximus the Confessor, Quakerism, Scandinavian creation theology, Science, History of, Theology (uncategorized) | 1 Comment

Jean-Claude Larchet on Maximus the Confessor: Were the righteous of the Old Covenant able to be divinized?

Posted on May 29, 2011 by

[I mentioned Jean-Claude Larchet and his book La divinisation de l’homme selon saint Maxime le Confesseur (The Divinization of Man According to Saint Maximus the Confessor) in a prior post.  Historically, divinization (theosis) has been a more important idea in … Continue reading →

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A question of theology: “If I make it to heaven, will my pet(s) be there too?”

Posted on March 12, 2011 by

[A Border terrier puppy we bred.] Clearly, people can have an unhealthy attachment to their pets, to the extent that they allow their relationships with them to take precedence over their relationships with people.  On the other hand one shouldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Lot-Borodine, Myrrha, Maximus the Confessor, Russian religious philosophy, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, Scandinavian creation theology | Leave a comment

Rays of goodness shining on wax

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

[A solar wax melter.] In chapter 12 of the first century of his Chapters on Knowledge (as translated by George C. Berthold), St. Maximus the Confessor writes: God is the sun of justice, as it is written, who shines rays … Continue reading →

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Jean-Claude Larchet on Maximus the Confessor: The entitative dimension of the virtues

Posted on February 10, 2011 by

I’ve mentioned the seventh-century monk Maximus the Confessor only twice here before.  But my lack of referrals to him should not be taken to mean that he is not important to me, or that I don’t frequently go back to … Continue reading →

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Maximus the Confessor, on the trees of Paradise

Posted on September 5, 2010 by

If his interpretation of the trees of Paradise was central for Shestov, to the point that it informed practically all of his writing, curiously, the same was not the case for the Church Fathers.  So says Lars Thunberg in his … Continue reading →

Posted in Fall of man, Fall of man, series of posts, Maximus the Confessor, Russian religious philosophy, Shestov, Lev | 1 Comment

My comments about Andrei Rublev, the film (first cut)

Posted on March 28, 2010 by

I regard Andrei Rublev as the “film of films.”  I’ve seen, and own copies of, all seven of Tarkovsky’s feature-length films.  Of course, all seven are strikingly original and memorable, but I think that in Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky has created … Continue reading →

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