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Maximos the Confessor (ca. 580–662) is now widely recognized as one of the greatest theological thinkers, not simply in the entire canon of Greek patristic literature, but in the Christian tradition as a whole. A peripatetic monk and prolific writer, his penetrating theological vision found expression in an unparalleled synthesis of biblical exegesis, ascetic spirituality, patristic theology, and...

of spiritual joy transcending all intellection.3 The sign of this joy, which is readily discernible and distinctly clear to all, is the soul’s disposition of absolute imperturbability4 and detachment with regard to this age. 1.1.2. Knowing, then, that nothing is more proper to rational beings than reason, and that nothing is more fitting for the spiritual nobility of those who love God than the understanding and exercise of reason—and when I speak of “reason” I am not referring to a reasoned discourse,
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