Maximus

In the Catena the comments under “Maximus” derive chiefly from Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662), the great Byzantine theologian of the human will of Christ and of the cosmic scope of redemption, whose stand against Monothelitism cost him his life. (Some Latin material under the same name belongs to Maximus of Turin, a fifth-century preacher.)

Maximus the Confessor was the most profound Byzantine theologian of his age. Defending the reality of Christ's human will against Monothelitism — a stand for which he was mutilated and exiled — he showed how the incarnation heals the whole human person, will included. His Ambigua and Questions to Thalassius read Scripture as the unveiling of the cosmic Christ in whom all things hold together.