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.