文档介绍：St John Damascene
Andrew Louth
Oxford University Press. 2002
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Life and Times
2. St John Damascene and Tradition
3. The Fountain Head of Knowledge: Nature and Development
4. Settling the Terms
5. Defining Error
6. Defining the Faith
7. Against the Iconoclasts
8. Χρυσορρας('Flowing With Gold'): John the Preacher
9. Γλυκορρμων('Sweetly Speaking'): John the Poet
Bibliography
Index
Preface
St John Damascene has been oddly served by scholarship. On the one hand, we now have a fine
critical edition, plete for his prose works, the life-work of Dom Bonifatius Kotter, OSB. This is
a signal mark of recognition, as yet extended to relatively few of the post-Nicene Greek Fathers (Gregory
of Nyssa and Dionysios the Areopagite have been similarly honoured; a critical edition of Maximos the
Confessor is well under way; and plete editions, save in the case of Gregory Nazianzen and, more
recently, Evagrios, are appearing in the series Sources Chrétiennes). But despite this, there has been little
attempt to reflect on the theology of the Damascene. In the early years of the project fostered by the
Byzantine Institute of the Abbey of Scheyern, under whose auspices Kotter's work proceeded, a number of
works on aspects of John's theology appeared: notably, valuable studies of his theological method by Basil
Studer, of his Christology by Keetje Rozemond, and of his logic by Gerhard Richter; but since then there
has been little. Earlier still, attention to John's theology had been slight: there were monographs by Langen
(1879), on his trinitarian theology by Bilz (1909), and on his theology of icons by Menges (1938), but in
his History of Dogma Harnack (1884-9) devoted only a handful of pages to the Damascene. Still further
back, the seventeenth-century scholar and advocate of union between the Orthodox Churches and Rome,
Leo Allatius, wrote a good deal on John's works (or what he believed to be his w