Imitation, Knowledge, and the Task of Christology in Maximus the Confessor

An exposition of the theme of imitation as the key to knowledge in Maximus the Confessor’s Christology.


Maximus the Confessor (580-662) was a monk and theologian whose combustive historical era, committed doctrinal reflection, and loud and influential voice took him on a turbulent career of traveling and writing around the Mediterranean. Maximus was a spiritual teacher, an ascetic and a contemplative, but he was also a polemicist, a crafter of dogma, an embattled Christologian, a premeditati...