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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...

the following must be included. First is his insistence that the natures of Christ must be numbered,92 because the number, when applied properly to Christ’s natures, does not divide.93 Second is his extensive use of the tripartite formula, to which references have already been made. Third is the way in which he uses the notion of perichōrēsis. Perichōrēsis in his Christology is not unilateral—that is, from the divinity to the humanity—but is characterized by mutuality and reciprocity.94 Fourth, and
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