Medieval · c. 675–749
Who influenced John of Damascus?
Influences
Last Church Father: summed orthodoxy and defended icons against the iconoclasts.
John of Damascus was influenced by Maximus the Confessor. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was John of Damascus?
John of Damascus, born Yuhanna ibn Mansur ibn Sarjun around 675, was a monk, priest, hymn writer and defender of the Christian faith, nicknamed Chrysorroas, "streaming with gold". Tradition says he died at the monastery of Mar Saba near Jerusalem in 749. His hymns are still sung in Eastern churches and by Lutherans at Easter.
He is best known for his defence of icons. He used perichoresis as a technical term for how Christ's two natures, and the persons of the Trinity, interpenetrate. Coming at the end of the patristic age, he is called the last of the Greek Fathers, and the Catholic Church counts him a Doctor of the Church.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced John of Damascus?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Maximus the Confessor c. 580–662
The line of teachers behind John of Damascus
The longest documented line of influence ending at John of Damascus runs 12 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from John of Damascus
Indirect influences
John of Damascus by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 25
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 65 — #27 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
- Church Fathers: Origen, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Augustine of Hippo, Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, John of Damascus
Questions about John of Damascus
- Who influenced John of Damascus?
- Maximus the Confessor.
- Who did John of Damascus influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on John of Damascus.
- When did John of Damascus live?
- c. 675–749. The map files John of Damascus under the medieval period.
- How rare is the John of Damascus card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on John of Damascus in 65 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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