title: Humanity as a tool of the Word: The beginning of monothelite disputes and Aristotle’s interpretation in the 6th century
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metadata.value: Shchukin, Timur A.
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metadata.value: 2024-08-19T19:13:16Z
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metadata.value: 2024-08-19T19:13:16Z
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metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.value: Shchukin T. A. Humanity as a tool of the Word: The beginning of monothelite disputes and Aristotle’s interpretation in the 6th century. Issues of Theology, 2024, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 213–228. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2024.203 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2024.203
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47253
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metadata.value: The article examines the Christology of Theodore of Tharan, one of the first Monothelite
  theologians, in the context of philosophical teachings relevant to this time.
  An analysis of the surviving fragments from Theodore’s epistles shows that his writings
  contain four concepts that mark him as a follower of the peripatetic philosophical
  tradition: the source of movement for the soul-body composite is that which is
  beyond it; the soul is one in the sense that the vegetable, animal and rational souls
  constitute a single essence and their action is one; the soul is the instrument of the
  Word, and the body is the instrument of the soul; it is impossible for a mover to
  move when the mover (the source of its movement) is stationary. It is assumed that
  Theodore of Tharan hardly borrowed these concepts directly from Aristotle, dealing
  with either peripatetic or neoplatonic interpretations of the Stagirite. It is concluded
  that Theodore of Tharan sympathized with a point of view close to authentic Aristotelianism
  in the interpretation of Alexander of Aphrodisias — this is indicated by
  the closeness of his views to the latter’s teaching about the active mind, about the
  unity of the soul, about the relationship of the movable and the moving. However,
  the instrumentalism of Theodore of Tharan, referring rather to the Neoplatonic interpretation of Aristotle, indicates that there is no complete identity with the views
  of Alexander of Aphrodisias in his texts.
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metadata.value: The present research was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project
  no. 21-011-44263 “Formation of the concept of ‘theology’ as a science and its conceptual apparatus
  in the Byzantine Christian theological thought of the late 5th — early 8th centuries in the
  context of scientific and philosophical knowledge of late antiquity”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Issues of Theology;Volume 6; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Theodore of Tharan
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monothelitism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monoenergism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aristotle
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: soul and body
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexander of Aphrodisias
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Simplicius
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: John Philoponus
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Humanity as a tool of the Word: The beginning of monothelite disputes and Aristotle’s interpretation in the 6th century
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