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Maximus the Monk, the Interpreter of Tradition,<br/>The Doctrinal Shadow over Ad Thalassium,<br/>The false Distinction between scripture and Ascetismin the interpretation of Ad Thalassium,<br/>Exegetical Discernment of the passions and Apatheia,<br/>Divine Apatheia,<br/>Christian Apatheia in Clement and Origen: The problem of desire,<br/>Gregory of Nyssa and Evagrius: Using Emotions well ,<br/>Conclusion,<br/>The passions in quaestiones ad Thalassium: the Ascetic <br/>unity of the Biblical Questions,<br/>Exegesis of the human heart: Perspectives from the introductions,<br/>The problem of passions And Maximus`s Exegetical Response,<br/>The ignorance of God and the interpretive problem for the spiritual life,<br/>Ignorance of God as th Midwife of the Passions,<br/>Apatheia as salutary ignorance and its relationship to defication,<br/>Christ: the Snake Charmer of Human passibility,<br/>The principle Metaphor of Ad thalassium,<br/>The christological Overtones of the Metaphor,<br/>Participation in Christ`s death as Medical remedy for the sin,<br/>The interaction of the personal and Theoretical in Ad Thalassium, <br/>Fear: the teacher of eternal awe,<br/>Between christian and Stotic fear,<br/>Vicious fear and wise caution,<br/>Clement and Origen: Discerning the Boundaries between virtuous and vicious fear,<br/>Gregory of Nyssa and Origen: fear as a threat to Epekstasis,<br/>Evagrius and the Monastic value of fear,<br/>Concluding assessments on the prior tradition of on fear, <br/>The Ascetic background of Maximus teaching on fear,<br/>Temporal and eternal fear in Ad Thalassium,<br/>The consequences of Maximus teaching on fear for his Christology,<br/>A grief observed from th horizon of eternity,<br/>Stoic grief and the value temporary remorse,<br/>Clement of Alexandria and Mercy as beneficence,<br/>Gregory of Nyssa and the Complexity of reasonable grief,<br/>Evagrius and the correct observance of compunction,<br/>The art of "suffering well" and "Godly Grief" in Maximus Ascetic theology,<br/>Voluntary and Involuntary grief in Ad Thalassium,<br/>The Eschatological consequences of Maximus`s teaching on grief,<br/>The relationshop between love and Eschatological Apatheia,<br/>Stotic and Platonic and Philanthropia: the Providential care of the Universe,<br/>The personalization and Philanthropia of Christ in Clement and Origen,<br/>The Ecstatic dimension of divine philanthropia in Dionysius,<br/>Philanthropia of Christ in Ad Thalassium,<br/>Agape- Paul`s superior apostolic charism,<br/>Love: Unifying the fractured human Psyche,<br/>Transfigured eros of the human soul,<br/>God`s Eros in Ad Thalassium,<br/>Eros, Apatheia, and Ever-moving Repose,<br/>Bibliography,<br/>Primary Sources:Maximus the Confessor,<br/>Primary Sources: Early Christian Authors,<br/>Primary sources: other ancient authors,<br/>Secondary studies,<br/>Index<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> |