Maximus the ConfessorSt Maximus the Confessor, the greatest of Byzantine theologians, lived through the most catastrophic period the Byzantine Empire was to experience before the Crusades. This book introduces the reader to the times and upheavals during which Maximus lived. It discusses his cosmic vision of humanity and the role of the church. The study makes available a selection of Maximus' theological treaties many of them translated for the first time. The translations are accompanied by a lucid and informed introduction. |
Contents
LIFE AND TIMES | 3 |
THE SOURCES OF MAXIMUS THEOLOGY | 19 |
MAXIMUS SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY | 33 |
THE DOCTRINE OF THE PERSON OF CHRIST | 48 |
COSMIC THEOLOGY | 63 |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE TEXTS | 81 |
DIFFICULTY 10 | 94 |
DIFFICULTY 41 | 155 |
DIFFICULTY 71 | 163 |
DIFFICULTY 1 | 169 |
OPUSCULE 7 | 180 |
OPUSCULE 3 | 192 |
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accordance Ambigua apophatic ascetic struggle ascetical theology Athanasius become beginning Bishop blessed Byzantine called cataphatic cataphatic theology century Chalcedon Chalcedonian Christ Christian Christological Constantinople corruption cosmic cosmos creation Cyril Cyril of Alexandria death deified Denys the Areopagite Diadochus difference Difficulty divided division doctrine dyad eternity Evagrius everything existence Father flesh glory gnomic God's Godhead grace Greek Gregory Nazianzen Gregory of Nyssa Heraclius holy human nature human person humankind hypostasis hypostatic Incarnation ineffable interpretation introduced Jesus kind knowledge liturgy logoi logos Lord manifest Maximus Maximus the Confessor meaning mind mode monad Monenergism monk Monophysites Monothelitism Moses moved movement mystery natural contemplation Nemesius Neoplatonic Opusc Origen Origenist Orthodox passions Patriarch possess providence rational reason Saints Scripture senses Sermon Severus simply Sophronius soul spiritual things thought tradition transcends Transfiguration translated triad Trinity truly understanding union unity universe virtue whole wisdom wise Word