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	St. John Damascene - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The caliph, now convinced of John's innocence, would fain have reinstated him in his former office, but the Damascene had heard a call to a higher life, and with his foster-brother entered the monastery of St. Sabas, some eighteen miles south-east of Jerusalem.
		It seems to have been John Damascene's purpose to give his readers only such philosophical knowledge as was necessary for understanding the subsequent parts of the "Fountain of Wisdom".
		John's authorship of this book has been challenged, for the reason that the writer, in treating of Arianism, speaks of Arius, who died four centuries before the time of Damascene, as still living and working spiritual ruin among his people.
	www.heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Johannes_von_Damaskus.html (2976 words)

	John of Damascus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John's father arranged for the release of this man and appointed him tutor to his son.
		Despite John's earnest advocation to his innocence, the caliph dismissed his plea and discharged him from his post, ordering his right hand, which he used for writing to be severed by the wrist.
		However, John then retired to the monastery of Saint Sabbas near Jerusalem, where he continued to produce a stream of commentaries, hymns and apologetic writings, including the Octoechos (the Church's service book of eight tones) and An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, a summary of the dogmatic writings of the Early Church Fathers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_of_Damascus (1026 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In his youth John was not schooled in the normal activities of riding, fighting and hunting, but rather in the sciences and theology.
		John is believed to have died of old age at the monastery of St. Sabas.
		While John often borrowed from the writings of others to explain Christian theology and to refute the iconoclastic heresy, his zeal for truth and his love for God led him to use all that was in his power to bring this Word of Truth to the peoples of his time.
	www.christdesert.org /public_graphics/martyrology/names/j/john_damascene.txt (403 words)

	St. John of Damascus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		John the Damascene was a brilliant star in the ecclesiastical firmament, shining with steady rays in the dark night of heresy.
		The hymns of John Damascene were to be a joy of the whole Church, surpassing even the Song of Moses and the choral minstrelsy of Miriam.
		John himself had already been ordained to the holy priesthood some years before his foster-brother was made Bishop: but although he was given the rank of “presbyter”, he seldom left the monastery of St. Sabas.
	www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org /articles/patrology/moses_st_john_damascus.htm (5541 words)

	Philosophical Explanation of Hypostatical Union in John Damascene's Fount of Knowledge: Theandros - Online Journal of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Even though John of Damascus has claimed that this interpretation of nature had its roots in pagan philosophy, in his treatment of hypostatical union he used the term 'nature' in the meaning of substance qualified by essential differences.
		According to the Damascene, this union is essential in a sense that the union is true and not imaginary.
		Thus, Damascene claims that "it is impossible for one compound nature to be made from two substances, that is to say, from two natures, because it is impossible for logically opposed constituent differences to exist in the same thing.
	www.theandros.com /jdamasc.html (3927 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint John Damascene
		Damascene replied with even greater vigour than before, and by the adoption of a simpler style brought the Christian side of the controversy within the grasp of the common people.
		John Damascene's purpose to give his readers only such philosophical knowledge as was necessary for understanding the subsequent parts of the "Fountain of Wisdom".
		John Chrysostom and appended as commentaries to texts from the Epistles of St.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08459b.htm (2573 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : December 04, 2006 : John Damascene
		John Damascene was a learned theologian who carefully gathered together and transmitted to us the teaching of the Greek Fathers, and is thus one of the most trustworthy witnesses to oriental tradition.
		John of Damascus or Damascene, the last of the Greek Fathers, was one of the principal defenders of the veneration of images against the Iconoclasts, who condemned this practice.
		John Damascene was made a Doctor of the Church for his efforts to defend the faith, learn to defend the use of religious pictures and objects to your Protestant friends.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2006-12-4 (1195 words)

	St. John Damascene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His father was John al-Mansur, a Christian official in the court of the Moslem khalif.
		John was baptized in infancy, and had a tutor called Cosmas who taught he the sciences and theology.
		John's three letters in defence of the holy icons, for which he was slandered before the khalif and his hand was cut off, had become known and read everywhere, and had earned him the hatred of the persecuting emperors.
	home.it.com.au /~jgrapsas/pages/dmascene.htm (372 words)

	Living Water College of the Arts: Support the College
		When John was in his early twenties, his father hired a monk to tutor him in the arts—music, astronomy, mathematics and theology.
		John Damascene vigorously defended the use of holy art and images and employed his education through writing and speaking to educate people in the truth.
		John's three letters in defense of the holy icons, for which he was slandered before the khalif and his hand was cut off, had become known and read everywhere, and had earned him the hatred of the persecuting emperors.
	livingwatercollege.com /html_about/stjohnbio.htm (535 words)

	St. John the Dwarf
		One of the best-known of the fifth-century desert saints was a man called "John Kolobos;" that is, John the Little, of John the Dwarf.
		John bade her to come back to the desert with him.
		John and his followers fled east across the Nile to the desert made famous by St. Anthony, the pioneer Egyptian monk.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id38.htm (705 words)

	St. John Damascene \| Biography and Writings of Saint John of Damascus -Welcome to The Crossroads Initiative
		Saint John Damascene was born into a rich family and spent the early years of his adult life serving as the official representative of the Christian community to the Muslim Caliph.
		John Damascene's treatment of the Sacraments is also extensive, and his emphasis on the real bodily presence of Jesus in the Eucharist is very strong.
		John Damascene's influence on later theology was considerable indeed.
	www.crossroadsinitiative.com /library_author/56/St._John_Damascene.html (425 words)

	Island of Freedom - St. John Damascene
		Saint John Damascene, or John of Damascus, was a theologian, writer, scholar, Father of the Church, and Doctor of the Church.
		John was considered one of the ablest philosophers of his day and was known as Chrysorrhoas (Greek, "Golden Stream") because of his oratorical ability.
		Saint John Damascene is considered a saint by both the Roman Catholic church and the Greek church.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /DAMASCEN.HTM (934 words)

	John of Damascus Biography and Summary
		JOHN OF DAMASCUS, also known as John Damascene, was an eighth-century Christian saint, church father, monastic, theologian, author, and poet.
		John of Damascus(C. 750) John, whose secular name was Mansur, was born in Damascus probably in the third quarter of the seventh century.
		John of Damascus (Latin: Iohannes Damascenus or Johannes Damascenus also known as John Damascene, Chrysorrhoas, "streaming with gold"—i.e., "the golden speaker") (c.
	www.bookrags.com /John_of_Damascus (358 words)

	Lives of the Saints, March 27, Saint John Damascene, St. John of Egypt
		Thus it was through Saint John Damascene that the advanced sciences made their apparition among the Arab Moslems, who had burnt the library of Alexandria in Egypt; it was not the Moslems who instructed the Christians, as was believed for some time in Europe.
		Saint John vigorously opposed the ferocious Iconoclast persecution instigated by the Emperor of Constantinople, Leo the Isaurian.
		But Saint John obtained the hand afterwards, and invoked the Blessed Virgin in a prayer which has been preserved; he prayed to be able to continue to write the praises of Her Son and Herself.
	magnificat.ca /cal/engl/03-27.htm (1156 words)

	St. John Damascene
		John Damascene (or John of Damascus) was the last of the great Eastern Fathers of the Church.
		However, around 700 A.D perhaps because the new caliph was less well-disposed to Christians, John resigned his state position and became a monk in the monastery of St. Sabas near Jerusalem.
		John's spiritual director told him that he should be mourning his sins, not indulging in song.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id260.htm (759 words)

	St. John Damascene - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
		John spent most of his life in the monastery of St. Sabas, near Jerusalem, and all of his life under Muslim rule, indeed, protected by it.
		Paradoxically, it was the Eastern Christian emperor Leo who forbade the practice, and it was because John lived in Muslim territory that his enemies could not silence him.
		John defended the Church’s understanding of the veneration of images and explained the faith of the Church in several other controversies.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1219 (366 words)

	St. John of Damascus - Catholic Online
		John entreated that the hand might be restored to him, knelt before the image of the Virgin, prayed, fell asleep, and woke with his hand as before.
		John, convinced by this miracle, that he was under the special protection of our Lady, resolved to devote himself wholly to a life of prayer and praise, and retired to the monastery of Saint Sabas.
		John was allowed to devote himself to religious poetry, which became the heritage of the Eastern Church, and to theological arguments in defense of the doctrines of the Church, and refutation of all heresies.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=66 (1374 words)

	St. John of Damascus
		John’s father, Sergius, died in 726 and St. John was appointed to take his father’s position as counselor to the caliph (civil and religious leader in a Moslem state).
		That night while St. John was sleeping, the Virgin appeared to him saying, “Thy hand is now whole; sorrow no more.” John awoke with great joy and astonishment seeing that his cut-off hand was back in its place.
		John went on to write many hymns and books which are still used in church services today.
	www.antiochian.org /1247 (606 words)

	St. Pachomius Library
		John also wrote poetry and revised the Octoechoes, the cycle of eight weekly tones around which Byzantine worship centers.
		Of John's 150 works, the most famous is The Source of Knowledge (also translated as The Fount of Wisdom), which some consider to have been the first summa since it was taken as a model of systematic theology.
		John Ernest Merrill: Of the Tractate of John of Damascus on Islam.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xjn-damasc.html (312 words)

	The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. - Meditation - by Pope John Paul II
		Like St John Bosco after him, Pavoni's used encouraging and preventative methods; he preferred gentleness to severity.
		John's Gospel stresses that Christ's death was ordained "to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad" (Jn 11:52).
		Thus the proclamation of the Gospel will be more eloquent and an ever living message of hope and love to the men and women of every age.
	www.godspy.com /meditations/The-hour-has-come-for-the-Son-of-Man-to-be-glorified-Meditation-by-Pope-John-Paul-II.cfm (570 words)

	OUP: UK General Catalogue
		John Damascene, one-time senior civil servant in the Umayyad Arab Empire, became a monk near Jerusalem in the early years of the eighth century.
		This is the first book to present an overall account of John's life and work; it makes use of recent scholarship about the transformation of the former Byzantine territories of the Middle East after the seventh-century Arab Conquest, and the new critical edition of the Damascene's prose works.
		It sets John's theological work in the context of the process of preserving, defining, defending, and also celebrating the Christian faith of the early synods of the Church that took place in the Palestinian monasteries during the first century of Arab rule.
	www.oup.com /uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199252381&view=00&promo=jan0550 (973 words)

	St. John Damascene (760) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His son John was born in 675, and along with his adoptive brother Cosmas (October 14) was brought up to love and serve Christ.
		That evening John placed his severed hand before the icon of the Mother of God and prayed with tears that it might be restored.
		For his disobedience, John was given the job of cleaning all the latrines of the monastery by hand, which, again, he did without complaint.
	www.holytrinityorthodox.com /calendar/los/December/04-JohnDamascene.htm (549 words)

	St. John Damascene
		John's passion toward holy images gave him great consolation and we should be reminded that God too is mysteriously consoled when we do God's holy will in all things and turn to him in devout prayer.
		John felt obliged to challenge this destructive heresy and its accompanying violence.
		He states about John: "But the point that seems most striking and endearing about St John Damascene is his constant gratitude for being able to serve God and sing the praises of his Lady, the Theotokos or 'God-bearer'.
	www.doctorsofthecatholicchurch.com /JD.html (6031 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		C. John resigned from his position and retired to the Mar Saba monastery, where he eventually became a monk.
		These works led to John's condemnation at the Council of Hieria in 754.
		John had been dead for five years at the time of his condemnation, and the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 restored his good name.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/damascene.html (246 words)

	ST JOHN DAMASCENE /ST THOMAS AQUINAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For John as for the Cappadocians, the Father is the source of the Triune life and the principle of its unity.
		For John is clearly searching for a way to convey that the Son and Spirit come from the Father simultaneously, such as to be associated in all they do (OF 175).
		John further teaches that the Spirit is the Ikon (or Image) of the Son, as the Son is the ikon of the Father (OF, 200).
	praiseofglory.com /torre.htm (9865 words)

	Oxford Scholarship Online: St John Damascene
		John Damascene was born between 650–75 in Damascus and died in or near Jerusalem about 750.
		John Damascene is the most notable representative of this tradition.
		Three final chapters discuss John's understanding of Christian art (icons), developed in opposition to Byzantine iconoclasm, his preaching, for which he was famous in his lifetime, and his enormous contribution to Byzantine liturgical poetry, especially the canon.
	www.oxfordscholarship.com /oso/public/content/religion/0199252386/toc.html (272 words)

	The Mystical Tradition and St. John of the Cross
		Within the latter part of that same century we find St. John Damascene, the last of the Greek Fathers, appealing to the Pseudo-Areopagite in discussing the limitations of language in addressing the Absolute, particularly in his references to the essential incomprehensibility of God.
		Certainly the tradition that culminates in the thought of St. John owes a considerable debt to the Victorine School in further elaborating the Christian synthesis that derived its impulse from the Pseudo-Areopagite.
		The extent to which St. John of the Cross was influenced by this important school of thought is, I think, most clearly evidenced in his use of the allegorical interpretation of Scripture, certainly not in the Victorine emphasis upon reason.
	www.johnofthecross.com /the_mystical_tradition_and_st._john_of_the_cross.htm (4888 words)

	St. john damascene on dragons
		In fact, St. John Damascene is an author of the greatest intellectual and spiritual power, so it is clear that he is an absolute stranger to any gullibility or fable-telling.
		It is evident that neither St. John Damascene nor, all the more, Dio the Roman would have tried to support a fabrication with the reference to the Roman consul and senate.
		It means that we can without any prejudice accept St. John Damascene's evidence for the co-existence of people and dinosaurs, and that the latter appeared on the Earth not millions of years ago but during the biblical history.
	www.creationism.org /crimea/engl/al1.htm (1221 words)

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