Maximus the Confessor
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Maximus the Confessor, also spelled Maximos, otherwise known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople, was a Christian monk, theologian, and Neoplatonic scholar.
Athonite Fresco Icon of Saint Maximos the Confessor
Mosaic of Saint Maximus the Confessor from the Nea Moni of Chios.
A silver hexagram showing Constans II with his son Constantine IV. Constans II supported Monothelitism and had Maximus exiled for his refusal to accept Monothelite doctrine.
Constans II (left) having Maximus beaten for refusing to accept Monothelitism. Miniature from the 12th-century Manasses Chronicle.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite was a Greek author, Christian theologian and Neoplatonic philosopher of the late 5th to early 6th century, who wrote a set of works known as the Corpus Areopagiticum or
Maximus the Confessor
…there that he came under the tutelage of Saint Sophronius, and began studying in detail with him the Christological writings of Gregory of Nazianzus and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. According to I P Sheldon Williams his achievement was to set these doctrines into a framework of Aristotelian logic, which both suited the temper of…
Dionysius the Areopagite
Unknown painter Transfiguration of Christ WGA23487
Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne
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