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Maximus the Confessor (Greek: Μάξιμος ὁ Ὁμολογητής) also known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople (c. 580 – 13 August 662) was a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar.

In his early life, Maximus was a civil servant, and an aide to the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius. However, he gave up this life in the political sphere to enter into the monastic life. Maximus had studied diverse schools of philosophy, and certainly what was common for his time, the Platonic dialogues, the works of Aristotle, and numerous later Platonic commentators on Aristotle and Plato, like Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. When one of his friends began espousing the Christological position known as Monothelitism, Maximus was drawn into the ...more

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	On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings by Maximus the Confessor, Robert L. Wilken (Translator), Paul M. Blowers (Translator) 4.45 avg rating — 676 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality by Maximus the Confessor, George C. Berthold (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy (Popular Patristics Series Volume 59) by Maximus the Confessor, Jonathan J. Armstrong (Translator) 4.46 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 650 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of the Virgin by Maximus the Confessor, Stephen J. Shoemaker (Translation) 4.45 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 650 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua, Volume 1 by Maximus the Confessor, Nicholas Constas (Translator) 4.69 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 634 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Hundred Chapters on Theology (Popular Patristics Series) by Maximus the Confessor, Luis Joshua Salés (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 633 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua, Volume 2 by Maximus the Confessor, Nicholas Constas (Translator) 4.76 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 634 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disputations with Pyrrhus by Saint Maximus the Confessor (2014-11-08) by Maximus the Confessor, Joseph P. Farrell (Translator) 4.54 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	St. Maximus the Confessor: The Ascetic Life, The Four Centuries on Charity by Maximus the Confessor, W.J. Burghardt, Polycarp Sherwood 4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1955 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series) by Maximus the Confessor, Maximos Constas (Translation) 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 634	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Theology without practice is the theology of demons”
― Maximus the Confessor

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“For indeed, what is more dire than the evils which today afflict the world? What is more terrible for the discerning than the unfolding events? What is more pitiable and frightening for those who endure them? To see a barbarous people of the desert overrunning another's lands as though they were their own; to see civilization itself being ravaged by wild and untamed beasts whose form alone is human.”
― Maximus the Confessor

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“He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins...”
― St. Maximos the Confessor

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