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On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings from St Maximus the Confessor is unavailable, but you can change that!

The last half of the twentieth century saw the establishment of the reputation of St Maximus the Confessor as the greatest of all Byzantine theologians, with a wholeness of vision that speaks directly to many of our concerns today. Until very recently, however, little of his work has been available in English translation, save for some collections of brief reflections arranged in centuries and a...

the logoi of beautiful things are securely grounded. In this way he becomes a “portion of God,” insofar as he exists through the logos of his being which is in God and insofar as he is good through the logos of his well-being [1084C] which is in God; and insofar as he is God through the logos of his eternal being which is in God, he prizes the logoi and acts according to them.42 Through them he places himself wholly in God alone, wholly imprinting and forming God alone in himself, so that by grace43
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