Une anthropologie à la base d'une pensée religieuse: l'unité de l'homme dans la théologie de Maxime le Confesseur

Fedor Stanjevskiy

Une anthropologie à la base d'une pensée religieuse: l'unité de l'homme dans la théologie de Maxime le Confesseur

[Anthropology Based on Religious Thinking: Unity of a Man in Maxim Confessor’s Theology]

Article

12/2 - Fall 2007, pages 409-428

Date of online publication: 15 novembre 2007

Date of publication: 01 novembre 2007

Abstract

Maximus the Confessor in his “Ambigua” opposes himself in a decisive way to the Origenist vision of man and of his relation to God, a vision extremely wide-spread in his time. He creates his own anthropology which in its turn serves as a foundation of his theology. Man becomes a complete and integrated being and obtains his full realisation only provided that he is united with God and is a corporeal being related to the world in which he lives. Man, World and God are the terms of a dynamic relation, in which each of the first terms finds its unity. Man's unity, as well as that of the world, is realised in God, towards Whom both tend and move. The article is an attempt to retrace this movement of man, together with the world, to God, the movement crowned in unity with Him, a kind of unity that does not take away man's identity.

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Stanjevskiy, Fedor. “Une anthropologie à la base d'une pensée religieuse: l'unité de l'homme dans la théologie de Maxime le Confesseur.” Forum Philosophicum 12, no. 2 (2007): 409–28. doi:10.35765/forphil.2007.1202.30.

Bibliography

Maxime le Confesseur. Ambigua. Translated by Emmanuel Ponsoye. Paris: L'Ancre, 1994.

Meyendorf, Jean. Le Christ dans la théologie byzantine. Paris: Cerf, 1969.

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