Abstract:This chapter opens by emphasizing that for the Orthodox, reading Scripture without the church fathers on at least some level would be unthinkable. The issue of looking at specific patristic exegesis of one or another text is distinguished from coming to terms with an overarching approach to the doctrine of Scripture as such in the church fathers. It is the latter that the chapter attempts to delineate, taking in turn the understanding of Origen (via the Cappadocian Philokalia), that of St. Maximus the Confesso… Show more
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