Maximus and the Trinity Christian life and doctrine Eric L. Lopez

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lopez, Eric L, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maximus, Confessor, Saint, approximately 580-662.

Orthodox Eastern Church.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic/Fortress Academic 2026

Summary:

"This book explores Maximus’s Trinitarian theology, starting with his early works and then moving through the various stages of his writing to analyze how his theology developed in its Late Antique context. While Maximus’s Trinitarian theology is inextricably linked with his Christology, this book offers a more nuanced account of their relationship and demonstrates how a broad set of traditions, concerns, and controversies gave a Trinitarian shape to his vision of Christian life and doctrine"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Maximus’s baseline Trinitarian theology in the Liber asceticus

Building on the baseline

Maximus’s engagement with Messalianism, Origenism, and Tritheism in Capita de caritate

Broadened sources and synthesis

Maximus, the Trinity, and the pro-Chalcedonian era

The architecture and workshops of the universe

Maximus on reading creation, Scripture, and theology in the Ambigua ad Iohannem and Quaestiones ad Thalassium

Trinity and simplicity in later ascetic works

The abasement of an ascetic sage and the rise of a confessor

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed March 30, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Lopez, Eric L. Maximus and the Trinity

ISBN:

9798216258155

9798216353911

9798216199632

OCLC:

1572307750

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license