Microcosm and Mediator: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus the Confessor by Thunberg, Lars; Thunberg, Lars [Preface]; Allchin, A. M. [Foreword];

Open Court Publishing Company, October 1995. Paper Back. New. This pioneering and still preeminent study, published in 1965, was the first monograph in English devoted to St. Maximus the Confessor (ca. 580-662), arguably the most important of the Greek Fathers between the Cappadocians and St. Gregory Palamas. A little familiarity with the Fathers triggers certain associations (allowing for gross simplification in all cases, of course): 'recapitulation' with Irenaeus, the Incarnation with Athanasius, deification with Gregory Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa. With Maximus, the key word might be 'cosmological.' In his work as a whole we find a meticulous integration of all the great themes of patristic thought, with a distinctive emphasis on the human person as 'microcosm and mediator' between God and the created order. He is the object of perichoresis, the divine permeation, but through the Incarnation, human nature also reciprocally permeates the divine. Maximus'… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. This text focuses on Maximus's anthropology, and his developed general reflections on human nature. It examines his psychology, his Christological presuppositions and the general concept of man as microcosm in Antiquity.

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Open Court Publishing Company, 1995-11-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!