‘Foretelling the Mystical Eucharist’: Maximus the Confessor and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
The monk and theologian, Maximus the Confessor (580–662), made creative use of the Creed in several contexts. First, he demonstrated that Nicaea’s authoritative statement remained a dynamic source of theological development within the contemporary controversies of monophysitism, monoenergism, and monthelitism. Second,...