The Church Fathers · c. 628–634
The Ambigua
Maximus the Confessor · c. 580–662
What it is
Solutions to difficult passages in Gregory of Nazianzus and Pseudo-Dionysius, which become an entire cosmology of the logoi — the divine intentions by which each created thing is what it is.
Why it lasted
The most demanding and most original Greek theology after the fourth century, and the text on which Maximus's modern reputation rests.
Where to read it
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