54-Maximus the Confessor: Where East and West Meet | Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina

By the seventh century, Christian thinkers of East and West were settling into scholastic methods, synthesizing and systematizing the thought of their Greek or Latin forebears. Maximus represents the best mind (by far) in this movement. Greek by origin, he spent decades living in Latin lands. His writing reflected the beauty and brilliance of piety and theology on both sides of the Mediterranean. In Maximus (to steal a phrase from Pope John Paul II) the Church breathed with both lungs. He marshaled all the resources of East and West to oppose the emerging Monothelite heresy. The emperor, meanwhile, pinned his hopes on the heresy to unite the empire against rising Islam-and Maximus suffered brutal torture and exile.
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Anthony Marco, doctoral dissertation, Consecrate the World to God: Maximus the Confessor on the “Secular” and Vatican II’s Theology of the Laity dsc.duq.edu/cg...
Andrew J. Summerson, Audio: Exegesis of the Human Heart: Narrating the Emotional Life of Christians with Maximus the Confessor sheptytskyinst...
Maximus the Confessor, On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ (an anthology of his works) www.amazon.com...
Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings www.amazon.com...
Mike Aquilina’s website fathersofthech...
Mike Aquilina’s books catholicbooksd...
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