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The Body in St Maximus the Confessor: Holy Flesh, Wholly Deified is unavailable, but you can change that!

Contemporary scholarship recognizes in Maximus the Confessor a theologian of towering intellectual importance. In this book Adam G. Cooper asks a question which from the origins of Christian thought has constituted an interpretative crux for catholic Christianity: what is the place of the material order and, specifically, of the human body, in God’s creative, redemptive, and perfective economies?...

The second is physiological: For just as the eye does not apprehend sensible phenomena without sunlight, so the human mind could never receive spiritual vision without spiritual light. For the one illumines natural sense enabling it to apprehend bodies, while the other illumines the mind for contemplation, bringing it to comprehend realities beyond sense.181 According to their natural, created state, human faculties in their psycho-somatic totality are receptive to divine revelation since they are
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