The Greek Fathers - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... 202 CHAPTER VII ST JOHN OF DAMASCUS (f c. 754) JOHN of Damascus, surnamed Chrysorroas,1 monk and priest near Jerusalem, is in most ways unlike any other father of the Church. Unless we count St Bernard (f 1153) one, John is the last of the fathers. In any case, he is the last Greek father, coming long after the others, alone in a very different age. He spent all his life under the government of a Mohammedan khalifah. His work as a writer was rather to compile and arrange what the older fathers had said than to add to it. He is the first of the long line of Christian Aristotelians, and one of the two greatest poets of the eastern Church.2 He was (with St Theodore of Studion) the chief defender of images during the Iconoclast troubles, and he is more than any other author the theologian studied in Orthodox colleges. His treatise Of the orthodox faith is the standard text book in their schools still, as St Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologica is in ours. And he is to them the last court of appeal in theological questions. No Orthodox Christian would dare contradict St John Damascene, though occasionally they have to explain what he really meant--as when he writes of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father through the Son. We know too little of his life; but to us also he is a very interesting and sympathetic person whose life and times form a singularly picturesque chapter of eastern Church history. 1Xpv
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- Publication date2013
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