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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

601–700

The Seventh Century

3 works

c. 630–634

Greek

Questions to Thalassius

Maximus the Confessor · c. 580–662

Sixty-five answers to difficulties in scripture, each opening into an argument about the passions, the fall, and how the incarnation heals the will.

Byzantine · CommentaryRead elsewhere

645

Greek

The Disputation with Pyrrhus

Maximus the Confessor · c. 580–662

The transcript of a public debate at Carthage in which Maximus argues that a will belongs to a nature rather than a person, so Christ must have two.

Byzantine · DialogueRead elsewhere

680–681

Greek

The Definition of the Third Council of Constantinople

The Third Council of Constantinople

The sixth ecumenical council declares two natural wills and two natural operations in Christ, the human will always freely following the divine.

Ecumenical · DefinitionRead elsewhere

1201–1300

The Thirteenth Century

1 work

c. 1300–1304

Latin

The Ordinatio

John Duns Scotus · c. 1266–1308

A commentary on the Sentences of extraordinary subtlety, arguing the univocity of being, the primacy of the will, and that Christ would have become incarnate even without the fall.

Franciscan · Systematic theologyRead elsewhere