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The Whole Mystery of Christ
2022
Overview
A thoroughgoing examination of Maximus Confessor's
singular theological vision through the prism of Christ's cosmic
and historical Incarnation.
Jordan Daniel Wood changes the trajectory of patristic
scholarship with this comprehensive historical and systematic study
of one of the most creative and profound thinkers of the patristic
era: Maximus Confessor (560-662 CE). Wood's panoramic vantage on
Maximus's thought emulates the theological depth of Hans Urs von
Balthasar's Cosmic Liturgy while also serving as a
corrective to that classic text.
Maximus's theological vision may be summed up in his enigmatic
assertion that \"the Word of God, very God, wills always and in all
things to actualize the mystery of his Incarnation.\" The Whole
Mystery of Christ sets out to explicate this claim. Attentive
to the various contexts in which Maximus thought and
wrote-including the wisdom of earlier church fathers, conciliar
developments in Christological and Trinitarian doctrine, monastic
and ascetic ways of life, and prominent contemporary philosophical
traditions-the book explores the relations between God's act of
creation and the Word's historical Incarnation, between the analogy
of being and Christology, and between history and the Fall, in
addition to treating such topics as grace, deification, theological
predication, and the ontology of nature versus personhood. Perhaps
uniquely among Christian thinkers, Wood argues, Maximus envisions
creatio ex nihilo as creatio ex Deo in the event
of the Word's kenosis: the mystery of Christ is the revealed
identity of the Word's historical and cosmic Incarnation. This book
will be of interest to scholars and students of patristics,
historical theology, systematic theology, and Byzantine
studies.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Subject
ISBN
9780268203481, 0268203482, 0268203466, 9780268203467, 9780268203474, 0268203504, 9780268203504, 0268203474
