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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 the divine goodness, which like lightning intelligibly flashes forth in beings. Through this manifestation, reason enters into the magnificently wrought realm of beings, and bears to the generative Cause of beings (to which reason itself is borne) those who have fully transformed the whole impulse of their innate natural desire, no longer held captive by any of the things sequent to the Cause. 1.1.3. When we take care to honor reason and live according to it, we become expert tamers of all the
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