The Christian Metaphysics of St Maximus the Confessor
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Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia - Subsidia Maximiana, vol. 97
Ambiguum 10 of Maximus the Confessor in Modern Study
Papers collected on the Occasion of the Budapest Colloquium on Saint Maximus, 3-4 February 2021
Alexis Léonas, Vladimir Cvetkovic (eds)
- Pages: 385 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:3 b/w
- Language(s):English, Greek, French
- Publication Year:2025
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61126-6
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The volume is the first to focus exclusively on St. Maximus’ Ambiguum 10. Its approach is multidisciplinary, combining theological, philosophical and history of ideas’ perspectives.
BIO
Vladimir Cvetković is a Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade
Alexis Léonas is Associate Professor at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Summary
Ambiguum 10 is an important example of Maximus the Confessor’s philosophical exegesis, which has not received concentrated scholarly attention so far. This volume will include a new critical text edition by Prof. Carl Laga and a new English translation by Joshua Lollar. It also offers a unique insight into the universe of the Christian thinker, showing his extensive knowledge of Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy and offering possible parallels with Ps-Dionisius the Areopagite. The present volume is the first attempt to bring together scholars of different traditions to understand the message and the reception to this seminal work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Introduction: Ambiguum 10 in context
Alex Léonas (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest) and Vladimir Cvetković (University of Belgrade)
II. The text of Ambiguum 10. Critical edition by Carl Laga with an English translation by Joshua Lollar
III. Studies
Maximus and his intellectual context
1. Pascal Mueller-Jourdan (UCO)? De la production simultanée de la nature et du temps. L’Ambiguum 10 de Maxime à la lumière du Timée de Platon.
2. Torstein Tollefsen (University of Oslo), Aristotelian Categories in Ambiguum 10 (1177b-1181a)
3. Lyubomira Stefanova (University of Sofia), Maximus the Confessor on symbols of manifestation of God the Word in the world
4. Aleksandar Djakovac, (University of Belgrade), St. Maximus the Confessor and the Hermeticism: Possible Inspiration?
St. Maximus the Christian Philosopher
5. Daniel Heide (McGill University, Montreal), Maximos Confessor’s Threefold Doctrine of Creation ex nihilo
6. Miklós Vassányi, (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest), Maximus the Confessor on the Infinity of God: Ambiguum 10, Sections 40–41. A Critical Reading
7. Vukašin Milićević (University of Belgrade), Christ before Christ. Some Observations on Ambiguum 10
8. Vladimir Cvetković (Belgrade – Bogotá) and Ivan Nišavić (Belgrade), Wisdom in Maximus the Confessor’s Ambiguum 10.19
9. Dionisios Skliris (Hellenic Open University), The divinization of man according to the Tenth Ambiguum of Saint Maximus the Confessor.
