Byzantine Gospel: Maximus the Confessor in Modern Scholarship
Overview
Byzantine Gospel is a general survey of all the major studies of the thought and theology of Maximus, increasingly regarded as representing the summit of the Greek patristic tradition.
Top Highlights
“man is called to annul divisions in the world morally not ontologically.10” (Page 123)
“Maximus contrasts the principle of nature, logos physeôs, with the modality of existence, tropos hyparxeôs: the abiding divine intention for a particular nature with its variable manners of realisation.” (Page 130)
“synthesis of affirmation and negation: the twist Maximus gives to Denys’ theological epistemology” (Page 63)
“the irreducibility of the hypostatic order, the order of personhood, to that of nature.” (Page 132)
“the Word Incarnate as the living synthesis of all apophasis and cataphasis” (Page 63)