The genetic mechanism of fallness : St. Maximos the Confessor revisited

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dc.contributor.author Moldovan, Sebastian
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-25T05:21:59Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-25T05:21:59Z
dc.date.issued 2021-09-09
dc.description Special Collection: Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania, sub-edited by Daniel Buda (Lucian Blaga University) and Jerry Pillay (University of Pretoria). en_ZA
dc.description The author is participating as the research associate of Dean Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria. en_ZA
dc.description.abstract Through a close reading of the two definitions of evil in the Introduction to Responses to Thalassios, this article points out a circular, cognitive-affective-somatic, genetic mechanism that St. Maximos the Confessor considers responsible for the initiation and transmission of the fallness as a human condition and the specific manifestation of it in the form of passions. It elucidates the first definition as mainly phenomenological, by identifying the circular mechanism and its behavioural expressions, and the second definition as more aetiological, by explaining why this mechanism emerges and reemerges with the fallen humanity despite its catastrophic results. CONTRIBUTION : This article highlights a double genetic mechanism (survival cum passions) that St. Maximos the Confessor grasped within the fallen human condition as a curse solvable only in Christ, a notion largely carved out by previous Maximian scholarship, but fully explained and valuated here. en_ZA
dc.description.department Dogmatics and Christian Ethics en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2022 en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://www.hts.org.za en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Moldovan, S., 2021, ‘The genetic mechanism of fallness: St. Maximos the Confessor revisited’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 77(4), a6701. https://DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v77i4.6701. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.4102/hts.v77i4.6701
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/84634
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher AOSIS en_ZA
dc.rights © 2021. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. en_ZA
dc.subject Fallness en_ZA
dc.subject Passions en_ZA
dc.subject Philautia en_ZA
dc.subject Responses to Thalassios en_ZA
dc.subject Maximos the confessor en_ZA
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dc.title The genetic mechanism of fallness : St. Maximos the Confessor revisited en_ZA
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