Andrew Louth - Syriac Christian Church
Andrew Louth - Syriac Christian Church Andrew Louth - Syriac Christian Church
THE SOURCES OF MAXIMUS’ THEOLOGY 31 healed—how this is achieved in the liturgy—what contribution the Christian ascetic struggle has to make: all this can be found, drawn together into an inspiring vision, in the work of the Confessor. It seems to me that Denys provides the cosmic framework for Maximus’ vision. 33 Into this framework there fits the wisdom of the ascetic tradition, with its understanding of human nature, and his deepened understanding of the Incarnation in which the creaturely will is united in full integrity to the will of the Creator. The ascetic tradition and the dogmatic tradition cross-fertilize, notably in the way the ascetic tradition fills out an understanding of the modalities of that human nature assumed by the Son of God. In this synthesis there is much genuine originality, which often takes the form of linking together traditional notions in a profoundly illuminating way, a good instance of this being Maximus’ application of the Dionysian language of apophatic and cataphatic theology, not simply to our understanding of God, as in Denys, but directly to the Incarnation and the doctrine of the two natures in a single person. 34 It is this brilliant theological synthesis that we shall explore in the rest of this Introduction.
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