CONTENTS

Acknowledgements /Remerciements

ix

Introduction (English)/Introduction (French)

xi

Abbreviations

xxiii

THE LIFE OF JOHN OF DAMASCUS AND ITS SOURCES

I

John of Damascus (c. 655c. 745)

143

English translation of Jean Damascne, Dictionnaire des

philosophes antiques III, ed. R. Goulet. Paris: CNRS ditions,
2000, pp. 9891012. Updated and augmented

II

John III of Antioch (9961021) and the Life of

John of Damascus (BHG 884)

126

English translation of Jean III dAntioche (9961021)

et la Vie de Jean Damascne (BHG 884), Revue des
tudes byzantines 68, 2010, pp. 12747

NEOCHALCEDONIAN PHILOSOPHY
III

Remarques sur la situation de la philosophie byzantine

du concile de Chalcdoine Jean Damascne

148

La Source de connaissance de Jean Damascne

(ca 650ca 750). Traduction franaise et commentaire des
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of Paris-IV Sorbonne, Paris, 1996, pp. cxviii-clxx.
First publication, updated and augmented

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
IV

Pseudo-Cyrils De SS. Trinitate: a compilation of

Joseph the Philosopher
Orientalia Christiana Periodica 61, 1995

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The Fount of knowledge between conservation and

creation

120

English translation of La Fonte della Conoscenza tra

conservazione e creazione, Giovanni di Damasco. Un Padre
al sorgere dellIslam. Atti del XIII Convegno ecumenico
internazionale di spiritualit ortodossa sezione bizantina,
Bose, 1113 sett. 2005, eds S. Chial and L. Cremaschi.
Bose 2006, pp. 177203

VI

At the origins of Byzantine systematic dogmatics: the

Exposition of the Orthodox faith of St John of Damascus

115

English translation of lorigine de la dogmatique

systmatique byzantine: ldition prcise de la foi orthodoxe
de saint Jean Damascne, Byzantine Theologians. The
Systematization of their own Doctrine and their Perception
of Foreign Doctrines, eds A. Rigo and P. Ermilov (Quaderni di
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Vergata, 2009, pp. 317

CHRISTIAN PRACTICES UNDER THE UMAYYADS

VII Lent in Jerusalem according to John of Damascuss
De sacris ieiuniis

114

English translation of La Quarantaine hirosolymitaine

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larchevque Georges Wagner, eds J. Getcha and A. Lossky
(Analecta sergiana 2). Paris: Presses Saint-Serge Institut
de Thologie Orthodoxe, 2005, pp. 7787

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Jean Damascne
Philomathestatos. Studies in Greek and Byzantine texts
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112

La Quarantaine hirosolymitaine dans le De sacris ieiuniis

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offerts la mmoire de larchevque Georges Wagner, eds
J. Getcha and A. Lossky (Analecta sergiana 2). Paris:
Presses Saint-Serge Institut de Thologie Orthodoxe 2005,
pp. 8994. Updated and augmented

Byzantine celebrations of the infancy of Mary and the

question of Immaculate Conception in the 19th and 20th
centuries

119

English translation of La question de lImmacule Conception

dans la tradition orientale et les clbrations byzantines de
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Normands. Dvotion, images, posie, ed. Fr. Thlamon. Rouen,
2011, pp. 5972

Index

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