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St. Maximus the Confessor (580–662), was a major Byzantine thinker, a theologian and philosopher. He developed a philosophical theology in which the doctrine of God, creation, the cosmic order, and salvation is integrated in a unified conception of reality. Christ, the divine Logos, is the center of the principles (the logoi) according to which the cosmos is created, and in accordance with which...

All of God’s activity has one single purpose, viz. to unite the world to Himself. Maximus asserts that the creation and ordering of the world is an embodiment (ἐνσωμάτωσις) of the Logos:1 ‘Always and in all God’s Logos and God wills to effect the mystery of His own embodiment.’ The Logos is embodied in the world by certain logoi that come from Him. These logoi of beings are a kind of divine Ideas which, taken together, constitute the divine plan for the created cosmos. On the basis of this plan,
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