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Two Hundred Chapters on Theology: Translation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Chapters on Theology is one of Maximus’ most eclectic writings. In this short piece, Maximus discusses many diverse themes, including God’s relation to the cosmos, monastic discipline and life, scriptural difficulties, and his vision of the consummated universe in relation to the incarnate Word of God. The work is arranged into two hundred “chapters,” which are often pithy pearls of wisdom...

1.1 God is one, without first principle, incomprehensible, throughout being the total potentiality of being; he excludes absolutely the concept of temporal or qualified existence,1 since inaccessible to everyone and not discernible to any being as a result of natural reflection. 1.2 God is not in himself—inasmuch as is possible for us to know2—a first principle, nor an intermediate state, nor an end, nor any other of those concepts that are in nature observed in what is after
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