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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...

So far I have abstained from translating logos (logoi), and I shall follow this practice throughout the rest of the book, for the question of how to translate this central term is a difficult one to answer satisfactorily. In English, as in other European languages, there is the long-established convention of translating the term λόγος in the prologue of the Gospel of John as ‘Word’ (German: Wort, French: Parole, Norwegian: Ord). However, I don’t think it
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