Table of Contents

IntroductionI. From the Fourth Century to Chalcedon and Beyond1. Introduction2. Apollinarism3. Nestorianism4. St Cyril of Alexandria5. The Council of Chalcedon6. The Anti-Chalcedonian Challenge7. The Post-Chalcedonian Response8. The Fifth Ecumenical Council9. ConclusionsII. The Monothelite Heresy of the Seventh Century1. Introduction2. Historical Outline3. Reviewing the Literature4. The Christology of the Monothelites of the Seventh Century5. The Background of the Monothelite Heresy of the Seventh Century6. Conclusions and AssessmentIII. The Dyothelite Christology of St Maximus the Confessor1. Introduction2. Person-Hypostasis, Nature-Essence, Unity and Distinction in the Christology of St Maximus3. The Notion of Will in St Maximus4. St Maximus' Defence of Dyothelite Christology5. The Particularity and Function of the Human Will of Jesus Christ According to St MaximusIV. Further Issues Relating to St Maximus' Dyothelite Christology and their Theological Significance1. Introduction2. Person or Nature? Leo, Maximus, and the Question of the Subject of Willing3. Concluding Remarks on St Maximus' Understanding of the Will and its Theological Significance4. St Maximus' Early Acceptance of ‘One Energy' and the Possibility of a Legitimate Monothelite Terminology5. Epilogue