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

dc.contributor.authorMoldovan, Sebastian
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-25T05:21:59Z
dc.date.available2022-03-25T05:21:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-09
dc.descriptionSpecial Collection: Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania, sub-edited by Daniel Buda (Lucian Blaga University) and Jerry Pillay (University of Pretoria).en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe 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.abstractThrough 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.departmentDogmatics and Christian Ethicsen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2022en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipLucian Blaga University of Sibiuen_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMoldovan, 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.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v77i4.6701
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/84634
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSISen_ZA
dc.rights© 2021. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectFallnessen_ZA
dc.subjectPassionsen_ZA
dc.subjectPhilautiaen_ZA
dc.subjectResponses to Thalassiosen_ZA
dc.subjectMaximos the confessoren_ZA
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dc.titleThe genetic mechanism of fallness : St. Maximos the Confessor revisiteden_ZA
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