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Salvation through temptation : Maximus the Confessor and Thomas Aquinas on Christ's victory over the devil /

"Examines the development of the predominant Greek and Latin Christian conceptions of spiritual temptation in general, and the role of Christ's temptation in particular, as exemplified in the works of Maximus the Confessor and Thomas Aquinas, respectively"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heidgerken, Benjamin E., 1984- (Autor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : The Catholic University of America Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword by Paul M. Blowers
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Modern Studies of Both Maximus and Thomas
  • Christ's Demonic Temptation in Modern Studies of Maximus
  • Christ's Demonic Temptation in Modern Studies of Thomas
  • 1. Sources for Maximus's Presentation of Christ's Temptation
  • Maximus's Anthropological Sources
  • Maximus's Christological Sources
  • 2. Maximus's Anthropology of Temptation
  • Adam's Created State and Fall
  • Human Nature and Demonic Temptation after the Fall
  • Providence and Affectivity in an Eschatological Perspective
  • 3. Maximus's View of Christ's Temptation
  • Christ's Humanity, Human Fallenness, and the Devil
  • The Perfections of Christ's Humanity and His Temptation
  • Salvation through Temptation: Christ's Victory over the Devil
  • 4. Sources for Thomas's Presentation of Christ's Temptation
  • John of Damascus as the Historical Link between Maximus and Thomas
  • Western Patristic Thought on Christ's Temptation by the Devil
  • High Medieval Sources on Christ's Temptation by the Devil
  • 5. Thomas's Anthropology of Temptation
  • The Created and Fallen States
  • Fleshly and Internal Demonic Temptation
  • Demonic Temptation, Virtue, and Providence
  • 6. Thomas's View of Christ's Temptation
  • Christological Synecdoche in Thomas's Soteriology of Temptation
  • Christ's Perfections and Voluntary Defects
  • Christ's Temptation and the Three Medieval Temptations
  • Conclusion. Christ in Christian Traditions of Temptation
  • Bibliography
  • Index