Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 37)
Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 37)
Translated by FREDERIC H. CHASE
Series: The Fathers of the Church : A New Translation
Copyright Date: 1958
Published by: Catholic University of America Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgns9
Pages: 476
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fgns9
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Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 37)
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St. John of Damascus (ca. 675-749) is generally regarded as the last great figure of Greek Patrology

eISBN: 978-0-8132-1137-4
Subjects: Religion
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgns9.1
  2. INTRODUCTION
    INTRODUCTION (pp. v-xxxviii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgns9.2

    The Fount of Knowledge is one of the most important single works produced in the Greek patristic period, of which it marks the end, offering as it does an extensive and lucid synthesis of the Greek theological science of the whole period. It is the first greatSummaof theology to appear in either the East or the West. And it is the last work of any theological importance to appear in the East. Of the life of its author, Yanah ibn Mansur ibn Sargun, better known as St. John of Damascus, very little is known. There are a few...

  3. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. xxxix-2)
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  4. THE FOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE
    THE FOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE (pp. 3-110)
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    The most lowly monk and priest John to the most saintly and honored of God, Father Cosmas¹ the most holy Bishop of Maiuma, greetings in the Lord. Being fully conscious of the limitations of my intelligence and of the insufficiency of my language, your Beatitude, I have hesitated to undertake a task exceeding my capabilities and to presume to enter into the Holy of Holies like some bold and foolhardy person, for I am wary of the danger that threatens those who attempt such things. The divine Moses, the lawgiver, withdrew from all sight of human things and abandoned the...

  5. ON HERESIES
    ON HERESIES (pp. 111-164)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgns9.5

    The parents and archetypes of all heresies are four in number, namely: (1) Barbarism; (2) Scythism; (3) Hellenism; (4) Judaism. Out of these came all the rest.

    1.Barbarismis that which prevailed from the days of Adam down through ten generations to the time of Noe. It is called barbarism because of the fact that in those times men had no ruling authority or mutual accord, but every man was independent and a law unto himself after the dictates of his own will.

    2.Scythismprevailed from the days of Noe down to the building of the Tower of...

  6. THE ORTHODOX FAITH
    • BOOK ONE
      BOOK ONE (pp. 165-202)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgns9.6

      No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.’¹ The God-head, then, is ineffable and incomprehensible. For ‘no one knoweth the Father, but the Son: neither doth anyone know the Son, but the Father.’² Furthermore, the Holy Spirit knows the things of God, just as the spirit of man knows what is in man.³ After the first blessed state of nature, no one has ever known God unless God Himself revealed it to him—not only no man, but not even any of the supramundane powers:...

    • BOOK TWO
      BOOK TWO (pp. 203-266)
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      He made the ages who exists before the ages, of whom the divine David says: ‘From eternity and to eternity thou art;’¹ and the divine Apostle: ‘By whom also he made the ages.’²

      Now, one should note that the termagehas several meanings, because it signifies a great many things. Thus, the span of life of every man is called an age. Again, a period of one thousand years is called an age. Still again, this whole present life is called an age, and so is the age without end to come after the resurrection.³ And again, that is...

    • BOOK THREE
      BOOK THREE (pp. 267-334)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgns9.8

      And so, man succumbed to the assault of the demon, the author of evil; he failed to keep the Creator’s commandment and was stripped of grace and deprived of that familiarity which he had enjoyed with God; he was clothed with the roughness of his wretched life—for this is what the fig leaves signify—and put on death, that is to say, the mortality and grossness of the flesh—for this is what the garment of skins signifies;¹ he was excluded from paradise by the just judgment of God; and was condemned to death and made subject to corruption....

    • BOOK FOUR
      BOOK FOUR (pp. 335-406)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgns9.9

      After His resurrection from the dead He put aside all His passions, that is to say, ruin, hunger and thirst, sleep and fatigue, and the like. For, even though He did taste food after His resurrection,¹ it was not in obedience to any law of nature, because He did not feel hunger, but by way of dispensation that He might confirm the truth of the resurrection by showing that the flesh which had suffered and that which had risen were the same. Moreover, He did not put aside any of the elements of His nature, neither body nor soul, but...

  7. INDEX
    INDEX (pp. 407-426)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgns9.10
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