On March 27, 2025, Sea-Yun Pius Joung (PhD, University of Cambridge) held a seminar on the epistolary of St. Maximus the Confessor for the ROR.<\/p>\n
After providing some context on Maximus\u2019s life, times, and broader theological context, Sea-Yun Pius Joung reconstructed Maximus\u2019s metaphysical system with reference to his epistolary greetings, specifically the use of\u00a0logoi\u00a0in his greetings and farewells. Despite the manifold meanings of\u00a0logos, Maximus\u2019s greetings repeat\u00a0logoi\u00a0(in the plural) as a means of mediating the presence of the letter writer, in a way that hints beyond merely the\u00a0words<\/em>\u00a0of the letter. Letter 5 (to Constantine Sacellarius) shows a clear instantiation of this as the words of the letter and the\u00a0logoi\u00a0of\u00a0Maximian\u00a0metaphysics occur together (\u201cwords according to the words\u201d), which suggests that Maximus can use\u00a0logoi\u00a0metaphysically in his letters, as well as making use of the ambiguity of the word. In short, examining antecedents for Maximus\u2019s metaphysical account of\u00a0logoi\u00a0in Irenaeus and the Neo-Chalcedonians, Sea-Yun Pius Joung argued that the\u00a0logoi\u00a0in several Maximus\u2019s letters (Ep.<\/em>\u00a04, 5, 7, 15, 20, 24, 28, 30, 37, 43, 45) provide the means of\u00a0continuing the Incarnation<\/em>\u00a0for the believer, by conveying the presence of the holy man.\u00a0Thus,\u00a0logoi\u00a0are not the\u00a0hypostasis<\/em>\u00a0of Christ, nor the Divine Ideas in a Platonic sense, but principles of individuation that can be conveyed across time and space and that, in deriving from the\u00a0Logos<\/em>\u2019s wills (thelemata<\/em>), continue the incarnation whilst truly conveying the presence of the letter writer.<\/p>\n Handaut<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Poster<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, March 27 2025 On March 27, 2025, Sea-Yun Pius Joung (PhD, University of Cambridge) held a seminar on the epistolary of St. Maximus the Confessor for the ROR. After providing some context on Maximus\u2019s life, times, and broader theological context, Sea-Yun Pius Joung reconstructed Maximus\u2019s metaphysical system with… Read More »St. Maximus the Confessor\u2019s Epistolary Metaphysics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ror-seminar-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7374,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationalontology.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}