St. Maximus the Confessor

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course examines the life and thought of St Maximus the Confessor (c. 580 - 662), widely regarded as one of the most important and influential of all Byzantine Theologians. The course will move progressively through a large swathe of the Confessor's corpus, which includes an abundance of interconnected ascetic, mystagogical, cosmological, eschatological, and Christological material. The aim is to get a handle on the Confessor's complex and multi-layered theological vision, discuss his sources, as well as his ongoing relevance for the discipline of theology.