Byzantine Gospel

Maximus the Confessor (580-662), giant among early Byzantine theologians, stands at the summit of the Greek patristic tradition. He is spokesman of the Greek-speaking "e;East"e; in something of the way Thomas Aquinas came to speak for the Latin "e;West."e; His extreme importance as a spiritual writer is evidenced by the huge space assigned to him in the Philokalia. Believing in the intimate link b...