Maximus The Confessor - Writings

Writings

The original edition in Latin of Balthasar Corderius (Antwerp 1634) attributes all of the Scholia to Maximus, but the authorship has been questioned with Hans Urs von Balthasar (1940, 1961) attributing some of the Scholia to John of Scythopolis.

  • Ambigua – An exploration of difficult passages in the work of Pseudo-Dionysius and Gregory of Nazianzus, focusing on Christological issues. This also was later translated by Eriugena.
  • Commentary on Psalm 59
  • Commentary on the Lord's Prayer
  • Centuries on Love and Centuries on Theology - maxims about proper Christian living, arranged into groupings of one hundred.
  • Hymns
  • Life of the Virgin (Biography) - earliest complete biography of Mary, the mother of Jesus

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