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For Maximus, propositional knowledge of God must eventually give way to experiential knowledge of God:

“This active, experiential knowledge which, by participation, furnishes the direct perception of the object known, can supplant the relative knowledge based on reason and ideas.”

“For the sake of my salvation, Christ, through his own death, voluntarily made my condemnation his own, thereby granting me restoration to immortality.”
— St. Maximus the Confessir

“[The Lord] came to make plain to our nature the very beauty for which it was created in the beginning and in which it was thoroughly secure. He came to trample the wickedness into which, through deceit, our nature unnaturally fell at the instant it was created, thus depleting its whole potential.”

“By his gracious condescension, God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of his love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization.”

“Through the abundant grace of the Spirit it will be shown that God alone is at work, and in all things there will be only one activity, that of God and of those worthy of kinship with God. God will be all in all wholly penetrating all who are his in a way that is appropriate to each…

when God's ineffable majesty is made known, all intellectual and sensible things will be encompassed by him.”