Maximus and the Trinity

Christian Life and Doctrine

Eric L. Lopez

• Publisher: Fortress Academic
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216258155
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christianity

This book explores Maximus's Trinitarian theology, starting with his early works and then moving through the various stages of his writing to analyze how his theology developed in its Late Antique context. While Maximus's Trinitarian theology is inextricably linked with his Christology, this book offers a more nuanced account of their relationship and demonstrates how a broad set of traditions, concerns, and controversies gave a Trinitarian shape to his vision of Christian life and doctrine.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I: Maximus’s Trinitarian Theology in His Earliest Writings
• Chapter 1: Maximus’s Baseline Trinitarian Theology in the Liber Asceticus
• Chapter 2: Building on the Baseline: Trinity, Θεωρία, and Seeing Things Clearly
• Chapter 3: Maximus’s Engagement with Messalianism, Origenism, and Tritheism in Capita de Caritate
• Part II: Maximus’s Trinitarian Theology in Transition
• Chapter 4: Broaden Sources and Synthesis: Maximus’s Trinitarian Grammars Expanded
• Chapter 5: Maximus, the Trinity, and the Pro-Chalcedonian Era
• Part III: Maximus’s Mature Trinitarian Theology
• Chapter 6: The Architecture and Workshops of the Universe
• Chapter 7: Maximus on Reading Creation, Scripture, and Theology in the Ambigua ad Iohannem and Quaestiones ad Thalassium
• Chapter 8: Trinity and Simplicity in Later Ascetic Works
• Chapter 9: The Abasement of an Ascetic Sage and the Rise of a Confessor
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index
• Index of Ancient Persons
• Index of Modern Persons
• Index of Biblical References
• About the Author