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The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor is unavailable, but you can change that!

St. Maximus the Confessor is one of the giants of Christian theology. His doctrine of two wills gave the final shape to ancient Christology and was ratified by the Sixth Ecumenical Council in AD 681. This study throws new light upon one of the most interesting periods of historical and systematic theology. Its focus is the seventh century, the 100 years that saw the rapid expansion of Islam, and...

separately (from the Logos and) by itself.61 That human nature ‘came into being in the Logos and for (or because of) the Logos and became the flesh of the Logos by union’.62 So, the existence of the Logos’s human nature is grounded in a person: namely, in the Logos’s own person. Karazafeires is right in holding that ‘person then is not the product of nature, but, on the contrary, nature subsists in person and this [the person] is the principle of its existence’.63 There are other ways in which Maximus
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