Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World

by Paul M. Blowers

Book Overview

This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium's turbulent seventh century, the monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor (580-662). Building on newer biographical research and a growing international body of scholarship, as well as on fresh examination of his diverse literary corpus, Paul Blowers develops a profile integrating the two principal initiatives of Maximus's career: first, his reinterpretation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199673950
• ISBN13: 9780199673957
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"