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- Title
Creation is Incarnation: The Metaphysical Peculiarity of the Logoi in Maximus Confessor.
- Authors
Wood, Jordan Daniel
- Abstract
Maximian logoi or the 'principles' of created being are often virtually identified with Platonic ideas or forms. This assumption obscures what is distinctive about Maximus's concept of the logoi. I first note two metaphysical peculiarities of his doctrine, and then propose that these only make sense if we follow Maximus's own directive to read the logoi through Christology proper - that is, as describing creation as the Word's cosmic Incarnation. This suggests, in creative tension with a good deal of twentieth-century philosophical theology, that the God-world relation is not fully exhausted by the analogia entis: Maximus divines a still deeper hypostatic (not natural) identity between Word and world that actually generates natural difference - for perhaps the first and only time in the history of Christian thought. Here I assay a first step toward retrieving that relation.
- Subjects
INCARNATION; JESUS Christ; DOCTRINAL theology; CHRISTIANITY; THEOLOGY
- Publication
Modern Theology, 2018, Vol 34, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0266-7177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/moth.12382