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Thefollowingstudymakesnoclaimto originality.It isessentially asynthesisoftheEuropeanscholarshipwhichhasaccumulated around the figure ofMaxirnus the Confessor in the course of thelasttwenty-fiveyears. Both OrthodoxandCatholictheology, in Continental Europe, make evergreateruseoftheinsightsof this early Byzantine theologian. He is increasingly regarded as the giantofthe Greek tradition, to becompared, as the author of its classical statement, only with Thomas Aquinas in the Latin West. Although one outstanding student of Maximus, Lars Thunberg, isSwedish, his work was published in English, thanksto thegoodofficesofCanonA. M.Allchin, nowWarden of St Theosevia I-Iouse, Oxford. Otherwise, all the major monographs are in languages other than English- though the first large-scale American study appeared from the Notre DameUniversityPressin 1991.i\1yaim has been to provide the English-speaking readerwith a reliable guide to a selection of these 'major monographs', chosen- and commented onin such a way that they provide a cornprehensive overview of Maximus' theology: a 'Byzantine Gospel'. At the same time, sufficient primary texts have been included to give the reader a sense of Maximus' po
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- Author
- Aidan Nichols
- Publisher
- T. & T. Clark Publishers
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780567096517
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, History
