himself the fullness of the “Christic mystery” (τὸ κατὰ Χριστὸν μυστήριον), the comprehensive outworking of the divine plan (Eph 1:10–11) for the redemption and deification of the world which God premeditated before the ages. Equally importantly, however, Maximus locates the incarnation within a trinitarian matrix. The Three Persons foreknew the incarnation and shared mutually in its realization: the Father approving it, the Son properly carrying it out, the Spirit cooperating in it. This, for