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Table of Contents
The Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor
1 Introduction
I. ST MAXIMUS’ WRITINGS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
II. ST MAXIMUS ‘THE PHILOSOPHER’
III. ST MAXIMUS’ PHILOSOPHICAL SOURCES
IV. EARLIER RESEARCH RELEVANT TO THE PRESENT TOPIC
2 The Divine Ideas and the Creation of the Cosmos
I. ‘EXEMPLARISM’
II. PRECURSORS TO EXEMPLARIST DOCTRINES
The Cosmology from Timaeus
Aristotle’s Doctrine of Categories, Definitions and Classifications
The Stoic Doctrine of Logos/logoi
III. EXEMPLARISM IN THE PLATONIC TRADITION
IV. PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA AND EARLY CHRISTIAN EXEMPLARISM
V. ST MAXIMUS’ DOCTRINE OF CREATION
3 The Logos, the logoi, and Created Beings
I. THE LOGOS AS CENTRE OF ALL THE LOGOI
II. THE LOGOI AS PRINCIPLES OF A PORPHYRIAN TREE
III. THE ORDERING OF ESSENTIAL BEING—EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION
Essence
Common Nature
Particular Nature
Universals
Expansion and Contraction
IV. THE ONTOLOGICAL CONSTITUTION OF CREATED BEINGS
4 The Divine Activity
I. GOD’S ESSENCE AND ACTIVITIES ACCORDING TO ST GREGORY PALAMAS
II. THE DOCTRINE OF ESSENCE AND ACTIVITY PRIOR TO ST MAXIMUS
III. ESSENCE AND ACTIVITY ACCORDING TO ST MAXIMUS
IV. THE ACTIVITIES AND THE LOGOI
5 The Concept of Participation
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE PROBLEM OF PARTICIPATION
III. THE LOGIC OF PARTICIPATION
IV. INCARNATION AND PARTICIPATION ACCORDING TO ST MAXIMUS
Concluding Remarks