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Document Details : Title: St. Maximus the Confessor's Dialectic of logos, Mode and End in a Postmodern Context Subtitle: Its Importance to a Theological Evaluation of Race and Nationalism Author(s): SKLIRIS, Dionysios Journal: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Volume: 69 Issue: 1-4 Date: 2017 Pages: 249-280 DOI: 10.2143/JECS.69.1.3214959 Abstract : This paper examines an important feature of the thought of Maximus the Confessor (ca. 580-662), namely the dialectics between the terms logos (reason), tropos (mode) and telos (end), which can be re-actualized as a peculiar theology of dialogue. The author suggests that this theology is likely to engage in a seminal dialogue with postmodernity in general, and with post-Hegelian dialectical philosophy, Lacanian and post-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and phenomenology in particular. An application of this dialogical approach to the issue of race and nation is ventured. |
