The ascending prayer to Christ: theodore Stoudite's defence of the Christ-Ñikwv against ninth century iconoclasm
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Abstract
Theodore Stoudite (759-826) was at the centre of a revival of patristic learning which equipped him to apply the weight of the Christian tradition to the Byzantine image controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.In this recovery of the tradition Theodore discovered how the epistemological and ontological demands of both radical divine transcendence and divine active agency in the creative order are met in the incarnate Christ.He concluded that the liturgical expression of this developed theology requires the presence ofthe Christ-El.Ku.lv.The structure of this thesis reflects the single argument of the three-part 'AvnppTJnKol.Kaul: EiKovowfxwv(c.816).Antirr I and II describe the content ofthe 754 and 787 Councils, revealing the causes of the theological impasse which prevented the resolution of the controversy.In Antirr I and 11 Theodore also establishes the ground for his argument in Antirr III by distancing the eighth century Christ-El.Kwv from its function in former centuries as symbol, pure narrative painting and relic.Theodore defines its contemporary function as liturgical, devotional and doctrinal in character.Written in response to the 815 Council, Antin Ill is Theodore's apology for this Christ-El.Kwv as a legitimate object of npooKUVTJ<ns-.The argument is established within the parameters of the tradition as Theodore carefully defends the circumscribability of Christ in accordance with Chalcedonian Christology.My analysis of the Antin, assisted by a reading of his letters, reveals that Theodore understands the Christ-dKwv as playing a key role both in the ascetic struggle to free the mind from ;\.oyw1J.o{(distracting thoughts), and in the practice of 8Ewp{o:(contemplation) within the Liturgy.The liturgical, doctrinal and devotional Christ-dKwv has become a revealed and formal means by which the worshipper receives a Dionysian avaywy~ (spiritual uplifting) to the divine presence.
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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