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Union and Distinction in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor presents the writings of a key figure in Byzantine theology in the light of the themes of unity and diversity. The principle of simultaneous union and distinction forms the core of Maximus’ thought, pervading every area of his theology. It can be summarized as: things united remain distinct and without confusion in an inseparable...

but he also assumes that it is a commonplace and uses it as a proof against the Eunomian cause (i.e. against those who think they can know God in his very essence). If, therefore, in accordance with truthful reasoning, every divine energy individually intimates through itself the whole God without partition in the logos by which each being exists, who then can understand and say how God both is wholly in all beings in general and in each in particular, undividedly and without partition, neither being
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