The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199258642)

St Maximus the Confessor is one of the giants of Christian theology. His doctrine of two wills gave the final shape to ancient Christology and was ratified by the Sixth Ecumenical Council in AD 681. This study throws new light upon one of the most interesting periods of historical and systematic theology. Its focus is the seventh century, the century that saw the rapid expansion of Islam, and the Empire's failed attempt to retain many of its south-eastern provinces by inventing and promoting the heresy of Monothelitism (only one will in Christ) as a bridge between the Byzantine Church and the anti-Chalcedonian Churches which prevailed in some of these areas.

Author: Demetrios Bathrellos
ISBN-10: 0199258643
ISBN-13: 9780199258642
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2005
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d