John of Damascus

Vassa Kontouma has taught Orthodox Christianity at the École pratique des Hautes études (Paris) since 2000, whilst also undertaking research at the Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance (UMR 8167 and Labex RESMed). Academic director of the library of the Institut français d’études byzantines (ICP, Paris) since 2004, she was also elected President of the IFEB in 2013.

Contents: Introduction; The Life of John of Damascus and its Sources: John of Damascus (c.655-c.745); John III of Antioch (996-1021) and the Life of John of Damascus (BHG 884). Neochalcedonian Philosophy: Remarques sur la situation de la philosophie byzantine du concile de Chalcédoine à Jean Damascène. Systematic Theology: Pseudo-Cyril’s De SS. Trinitate: a compilation of Joseph the Philosopher; The Fount of knowledge between conservation and creation; At the origins of Byzantine systematic dogmatics: the Exposition of the Orthodox faith of St John of Damascus. Christian Practices under the Umayyads: Lent in Jerusalem according to John of Damascus’s De sacris ieiuniis; Un florilège sur le Grand Carême attribué à Jean Damascène; Le florilège sur le Grand Carême et la Lettre de Jean Damascène à Comètas; Byzantine celebrations of the infancy of Mary and the question of Immaculate Conception in the 19th and 20th centuries. Index.