Church Fatherc. 675–749

John Damascene

Who

Monk of Mar Saba near Jerusalem, the last of the Greek Fathers, whose summary of the faith and homilies on the Dormition gather the whole earlier tradition on Mary.

What Pitre quotes

On the Dormition of Mary II.2 — 'the holy, living ark of the living God, the one who carried her own maker within herself… David — her ancestor and God's — leaps for joy' (p 63)
On the Orthodox Faith 4.14 — 'God's Mother and Lady and Queen over all created things' (p 86)
Homily on the Dormition 1.2 — 'the Queen Mother, the benefactress of all nature' (p 86)
On the Orthodox Faith 4.14 — Mary 'suffered those pains, which she escaped at the birth, in the hour of the passion… her thoughts pierced her as a sword' (Luke 2:35) (pp 132–133)

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Cited by · 6

ArgumentHow the Ark typology points to the Assumption.
On the Dormition II.2 (p 63)
ArgumentThe Assumption in three steps — and which came first, Revelation 12 or the Ark
On the Dormition II.2 (p 63)
Argument'Incorruptible wood' — Exodus 25:5 in the Septuagint, Josephus, and Munificentissimus Deus 26
On the Dormition II.2 (p 63)
Argument'Pray for one another' — why stop in heaven? and the earliest recorded prayers to Mary
On the Orthodox Faith 4.14; Homily on the Dormition 1.2 (p 86)
ArgumentThe surprising claim about Mary's birth pangs at Bethlehem.
On the Orthodox Faith 4.14 (pp 132–133)
ArgumentPainless at Bethlehem, pains at the passion — Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, John Damascene; Mater Dolorosa
On the Orthodox Faith 4.14 (pp 132–133)

Passages · 3

PassageJohn Damascene — Homily on the Dormition 1.2
'the Queen Mother, the benefactress of all nature' (p 86)
PassageJohn Damascene — On the Dormition of Mary II.2
'the holy, living ark of the living God, the one who carried her own maker within herself… David — her ancestor and God's — leaps for joy' (p 63)
PassageJohn Damascene — On the Orthodox Faith 4.14
'God's Mother and Lady and Queen over all created things' (p 86)

Verses discussed · 4

Referenced by · 3

AuthorityGregory of Nyssa
AuthorityModestus of Jerusalem
AuthorityMunificentissimus Deus (Pius XII, 1950)

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