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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...

be in Christ, who has conquered the world of the passions, and is bestower of all peace. He who has not left the passionate attachment to material things, will constantly have affliction, since he changes his mentality along with things that are changeable by nature. He who has come to be in Christ in no way will have sensory perception of any material change whatsoever. Therefore the Lord says, “I have said these things to you, so that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have affliction,
Pages 177–179