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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...

to the participant. On the other hand, the participable element is the qualified presence of the unparticipable in accordance with the receptive capacity of the participant. I mentioned earlier that the Proclean distinctions between unparticipated, participated, and participant are interesting because they recur in the Christian philosophies of Dionysius and Maximus. Dionysius actually calls God ‘the unparticipated Cause’ (ὁ ἀμέθεκτος αἴτιος) which may be participated in by His πρόοδοι, such
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