The Passions in Quaestiones ad Thalassium: the Ascetic Unity of the Biblical Questions

Andrew J. Summerson

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Pages:: 37–56

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004446557_004

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This chapter focuses on Quaestiones ad Thalassium and argues for the thematic unity of the Introduction and Question 1 with the rest of the work. Maximus employs exegetical discernment to explain the origin of the passions. Likewise, questions about human passibility condition his exploration of the scriptural questions in the remainder of the work. Further, at the heart of Question 1 is the value of human passibility, a theme that Maximus develops in the later biblical questions. Human passibility can be used for salvific ends. Maximus specifies that Christ’s redemptive work on the Cross functions to redeem human passibility, granting the possibility of apatheia to every Christian through sacramental participation and ascetic struggle. I further show how Maximus’s account of human emotion develops out of his personal monastic experience and confrontation with the fundamental scriptural difficulty regarding the emotions of God and the saints in the Bible.

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Divine Scripture and Human Emotion in Maximus the Confessor

Exegesis of the Human Heart

Series: The Bible in Ancient Christianity, Volume: 15

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