Maximus the Confessor
c. 580 – 662 · Constantinople / Rome
Biography
Monk and theologian mutilated for defending two wills in Christ; vindicated at Constantinople III (681).
“God became man that man might become God.”— Ambiguum 7
Writings
- Ambigua
- Chapters on Love
- Disputation with Pyrrhus
Influence
Synthesized Cappadocian and Alexandrian theology into a mature Chalcedonian cosmology.