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The Understanding of the Sacraments in John of Damascus’ Theology
2022The final chapters of John of Damascus’ Expositio fidei are usually considered incoherent and labelled capita diversa. In a previous paper (Kontouma 2006 and 2015), I suggested some ways of interpreting these chapters within the theological project of John of Damascus. More specifically, concerning chs. 81–92, I had argued that they constituted a whole
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John of Damascus on Human Action, the Will, and Human Freedom
Abstract John of Damascus, influenced by Nemesius, thought that will (θέλησις) and its free use are possessed by all intellects. Since this includes God, he certainly cannot have meant by this what we mean by ‘free will’. Rather, he means that the will offers something like the freedom to desire what is appropriate, or good.George Karamanolis +2 more
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John of Damascus on Human Action, the Will, and Human Freedom
2002Abstract It is not surprising that John of Damascus should assume that there is such a thing as the will, and that it is in virtue of having such a will that we are responsible for what we are doing. By John’s time this was a standard assumption which could be taken for granted. Though not originally a Christian doctrine, but of Stoic
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Dionysius and John of Damascus
2022AbstractThis essay considers John Damascene’s use of Dionysius under the four headings of negative theology, Christology, angelology, and the defence of icons. Under the first heading Dionysius represents orthodoxy, yet Damascene tends to cite him only when his authority can be buttressed by that of accredited saints such as Gregory Nazianzen, and ...
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