Works of St. Maximus the Confessor on the disclosure of the dogmatic doctrine of two wills in Christ. Historical and dogmatic research

Contents Instead of a foreword Bibliographic index of sources and manuals "Ό Λόγος σαρξ έγένετο " [The word became flesh] (John I14) - this is the most extensive topic for Christian theological speculation, given in the theology of the first and greatest theologian in the Christian world, the Evangelist John. Above the clarification and disclosure of this topic, i.e., over the approach of the greatest one contained in it and the mystery of the appearance of Christ in the flesh, incomprehensible to the human mind, to the understanding of the human mind enlightened by the light of the Gospel teaching, the great Christian theologians, fathers and teachers of the Church of the first seven centuries of Christianity worked hard. Thanks to the works of the great fathers and teachers of the Church, the Church of Christ in corpore [in its entirety], with the assistance of the enlightening grace of God, as far as possible, revealed and expounded the doctrine of the person of the God-man in the definitions of faith. the first six Ecumenical Councils. She once and for all enclosed it in brief, but precise and strictly defined formulas (symbols), thereby protecting the Christological teaching from arbitrary heretical distortions and at the same time giving scope to Christian theological speculation within the limits indicated in the symbols. In this way, the Christological teaching about the person of the God-Man gradually, over the course of seven whole centuries, and very consistently was revealed and clarified in the consciousness of Christian society. After rejecting the wicked opinion of Arius about the non-consubstantiality and inequality of the Son of God with God the Father and establishing the unchanging position about the truth of the Divine nature of the God-Man, the theological minds of the Church turned to the other side of the face of the God-Man - to His humanity, raising the question of the truth of the human nature of Christ. After the rejection of the docetic error about the illusory nature of the human nature of Christ and after the formulation of the doctrine of the two perfect natures of Christ, inseparably and inextricably united in one person of the God-man, questions inevitably and very consistently arose in the Christian consciousness: how perfect is the human nature of Christ when united with the Divine, and what is the relationship of the two perfect natures to each other and to the single hypostasis of the God-man? These questions, which naturally arose from the creed of the Council of Chalcedon on natural duality with the personal unity of the God-man, in the 7th century, thanks to the interweaving of church and state interests and the unification attempts renewed at the beginning of the century, became the subject of a lively and very long-lasting polemic and, because of this, urgently required a precise definition and, if possible, a comprehensive discussion on the part of both of the disputing parties. The Greek monk, St. Maxim the Confessor, who, however, suffered a rather strange fate in history. Migne. Patrologiae cursus completus. S. Gr.: Tom. XC, XCI. S. Maximi confessoris opera. Edit. Fr. Combefis. 1865. Tom. XXVI, XXVIII. Athanasii, archiepiscopi Alexandrini, opera. Edit, monachorum ordinis S. Benedicti. 1857. Tom. XXXVI. S. Gregorii theologi (Nasianzeni) opera. Ed. monachorum ordinis S. Benedicti. 1858. Tom. LXXIII, LXXV, LXXVII. S. Cyrilli, Alexandriae archiepiscopi, opera, torn. 6, 8, 10. Ed. Ioannis Auberti. 1859. Tom. XLVI, XLV, XLVI. S. Gregorii, episc. Nysseni, opera. (Ed. Morell. 1638). 1858. Tom. XXXIII. S. Cyrilli, archiepiscopi Hierosolymitani, opera. Ed. Toutaei. 1857. Tom. XCIV. S. Ioannis Damasceni opera. Ed. M. le Quien. 1864. De fide orthodoxa. Tom. CHI. Photii, C. P. patriarchae, opera; torn. 3.I860. S. Dionysii Areopagitae opera. Ed. B. Corderii. Parisiis. M. D.C. XLIV. Mansi. Sacrorum conciliorum nova, et amplissima collectio. Tom. X and XI. Florentiae. MDCCLIV and MDCCLXV. Harduin. Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales. Tom. III. Parisiis, MDCCXIV. Anastasii Bibliothecarii Historia ecclesiastica, de vitis Romanorum Pontificum. Parisiis, M. DC. XLIX. Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae. Theophanis chronographia. Ex recensione loan. Classeni. Volumen I. Bonnae. MDCCCXXXIX. Pagi. Critica historico-chronologica in Annales Baronii. Tom. II, III. Antverpiae. M.DCCV. M. le Quien. Oriens christianus. Tom. I, II. Parisiis. M.DCCXC. I. S. Assemanus. Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana. Tom. II. Romae. MDCCXXI. Iaffe. Regesta Pontificum Romanorum. Berolini. MDCCCLI. Muralt. Chronographie Byzantine (de 395 a 1057). St. Petersburg. 1855. Chronique de Jean Eveque de Nikiou. Ed. Zotenberg. Paris. 1873. Hefele. Conciliengeschichte. Bnd. III. Freiburg im Breisgau. 1858. Walch. Ketzerhistory. Band IX. Leipzig. 1780. Ebrard. Kirchen-und Dogmen-Geschichte. Erster Band. Erlangen. 1865. Gieseler. Variae de Christi persona opiniones Monophysitarum. Commentationis particulae I et II. Gottingae. 1835,1838. Braun. Der Begriff "Person" in seiner Anwendung auf die Lehre von der Trinität und Incarnation. Mainz. 1876. Schwane. Dogmengeschichte der paristischen Zeit. Munster. 1869. Dorner. Die Lehre von der Person Christi. Theil II. Berlin. 1853. F. Ch. Baur. Die christliche Lehre von der Dreieinigkeit und Menschwerdung Gottes. Zweiter Theil. Tubingen. 1842. Thomasius. Die Christliche Dogmengeschichte. Band. I. Erlangen. 1874. Leo Allatius. Graecia orthodoxa. Tom. I. Romae, MDCLII. Photii Bibliotheca, ex recensione Imman. Bekkeri. Tom. 1. Berolini. 1824. Fabricius. Bibliotheca Graeca. Ed. Harles, vol. IX. Hamburgi, MDCCXXIX. Cave. Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum historia literaria. Volumen I. Oxonii. MDCCXL. I. M. Schrockh. Christliche Kirchengeschichte. Theil XX. Leipzig. 1794. Macarius, Archbishop of Kharkov. Orthodox-Dogmatic Theology. Volume II St. Petersburg. 1868. Filaret, Archbishop of Chernigov. Historical teaching about the Fathers of the Church. Volume III. Second edition. St. Petersburg 1882. Innocent, Archbishop of Kherson and Tauride. Essays. Public domain edition, volume VI. St. Petersburg 1873. Acts of the Ecumenical Councils in Russian translation. Volume VI. Kazan. 1871. Orthodox Interlocutor for 1857. Life of St. Maximus the Confessor.