The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor

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
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/13/2005
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780199258642

About the Author

Demetrios Bathrellos is Priest in the Greek Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom, London.

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