The Body in St. Maximus the Confessor Holy Flesh, Wholly Deified [Hardcover]

Contemporary scholarship recognizes in Maximus the Confessor a theologian of towering intellectual importance. In this book Adam G. Cooper puts to him a question which from the origins of Christian thought has constituted an interpretative crux for catholic Christianity: what is the place of the material order and, specifically, of the human body, in God's creative, redemptive, and perfective economies? While the study builds upon the insights of other efforts in Maximian scholarship, it primarily presents an engagement with the full vista of Maximus's own writings, providing a unique contribution towards an intelligent apprehension of this erudite but often impenetrable theological mind.

Cooper's study will likely impress expert readers of Maximus for its synthetic power but will also attract students seeking an exciting introduction. --Journal of Religion

Adam G. Cooperis a Pastor of the Lutheran Church of Australia and an honorary fellow of the Classics Department at the University of Melbourne.