The Priesthood in Maximus the Confessor

  1. Manuel Mira 1
  1. 1 Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
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    Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

    Roma, Italia

    ROR https://ror.org/02g30pd64

Proceedings:
Studia Patristica, Vol. LXXV: Papers presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2015

Publisher: Peeters

ISBN: 9789042935716

Year of publication: 2017

Pages: 201-211

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

Based on some of Maximus’ writings this article describes how the Confessor understood the ministerial priesthood of the New Testament: its differences with the pagan and the old testament priesthood; its being based on the mistery of Christ through the imprinting of God’s seal into the soul of the priest; its task of gathering together the God’s people, attracting this people to its own virtue. These teachings of the Byzantine monk are considered from the perspective of the relationship between Christian sacramental rites and spiritual struggle and progress, in order to underline how both dimensions converge.