Andrew Louth - Syriac Christian Church

198 NOTES
the Persians. But there still seems unimpeachable evidence that
Maximus had been in the imperial service: see above, n. 6.
12 For St Cyril and the Christological controversy that culminated at the
Council of Ephesus, see most recently McGuckin (1994).
13 For the aftermath of Chalcedon, see Grillmeier (1987).
14 For a translation of the Henotikon, with textual variants and notes, see
Coleman-Norton (1966), item 527 (3, 924–33).
15 For the affair of the Scythian monks, see Chadwick (1981), 185–8.
16 For the theological developments recounted in this paragraph, see, most
recently, Grillmeier (1989).
17 Tanner (1990), I, 118.
18 See Meyendorff (1989), 270f.
19 For the rest of this chapter, see especially Meyendorff (1989), 333–80,
and Murphy and Sherwood (1974), 133–260 (with translated
documents: 303–22).
20 Theophanes, Chronicle (ed. C.de Boor, Leipzig, 1883–5), 330.
21 As Lackner notes: Lackner (1967), p. 287.
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THE SOURCES OF MAXIMUS’ THEOLOGY
1 Balthasar (1961), 5. The quotation is from the 1816 preface to
Coleridge’s poem ‘Christabel’ (The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed.
E.H. Coleridge, Oxford, 1917, 214f.). I would like to acknowledge the
help of my colleague at Goldsmiths’, Professor Chris Baldick, in tracking
down this quotation.
2 Lemerle (1977), 251.
3 For further discussion of the genre of the century, see Balthasar (1961),
482–9. The genre was revived in seventeenth-century England in
Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditation.
4 There is a good discussion of this question of the genre of Maximus’
works, specifically in relation to QT, in Blowers (1991), 28–94.
5 On this see the first chapter of Pelikan (1974), 8–36, and also Louth
(1993a).
6 On this understanding of the authority of councils, see most recently
McGuckin (1994), 70f.
7 And remained so. Helen Waddell remarked long ago how she came to
the Desert Fathers originally ‘in a plan I had of reading for myself, with
a mind emptied, what the ordinary medieval student would have read,
to find the kind of furniture his imagination lived among’: Waddell
(1936), viii.
8 There is an English translation of the main Greek alphabetical
collection: Ward (1975).
9 See the fundamental article: Viller (1930).
10 On this stage of the Origenist controversy: see Clark (1992).
11 For this later phase of Origenism, see Diekamp (1899), Sherwood
(1955a), 72–92 and Guillaumont (1962).