but only by way of a synthesis of affirmation and negation: the twist Maximus gives to Denys’ theological epistemology. Negations of what God is and affirmations that he is, so Maximus writes, are ‘bound together in an amicable way, philikôs, and are receptive of each other’. And to this we can relate the being of the Word Incarnate as the living synthesis of all apophasis and cataphasis. So Maximus presents him: The supersubstantial Logos, truly taking substance from our substance, conjoined to