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Found 6 comments on On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ:

u/Korburger · 7 pointsr/Catholicism

New Advent page: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10078b.htm

PDF of his Ambigua or Difficulties, on interpretation of difficult passages from Scripture and the Fathers: https://www.academia.edu/10390492/Introduction_to_Maximos_the_Confessor_The_Ambigua_Harvard_University_Press_2014_

A fantastic and slim volume from SVS Press in the Popular Patristics Series, general editor John Behr (I highly recommend these editions for all the Fathers): https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Mystery-Jesus-Christ/dp/088141249X/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=maximus+the+confessor&qid=1565741206&s=gateway&sprefix=maximus+the+co&sr=8-2

u/tbown · 5 pointsr/Reformed

Generally histories:

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

Chadwick - The Early Church

Retrieving Nicaea

Specific Important Authors

Apostolic Fathers

Origen Note: Not everything he said is orthodox, but he was an extremely important figure.

Desert Fathers

Athanasius - On the Incarnation

Basil - On the Holy Spirit

Gregory of Nazianzus

John Chrysostom

Augustine - Confessions

Rule of St. Benedict

Gregory the Great

Maximus the Confessor

John Damascus

u/TheMetropolia · 3 pointsr/Christianity

The Cosmic Mystery of Christ is a text by st. Maximus the Confessor. In it he says a lot against the idea that we once were in perfect onion with God before the Fall.

This is one of the primary theological problems with theology drawing too much on neoplstonism, as this type of New Age thought does.

If we existed in perfect union with God before the Fall, then God is not the summa bonum that all creation has a natural will pulling and enticing it into communion with God as it's theological and eschatological end. Instead the satisfaction that God brings is ultimately as unsatisfying and fickle as the world.

Also the notion of monism is a neoplatonist idea that contradicts Christian thought and is from the Neoplatonist monad. We believe God is both distinct from and personal with creation.

The early Church Fathers taught that God became man so man could become God and that by grace we become everything Christ is by nature; so we so we do teach what is called deification (theosis) of the mind, but importantly also the body and all of the cosmos. Not just the mind, nor does it become a monist model nor was this the original state for reasons listed above.

The notion that it's just the mind and not the body as well is another neoplatonist view that disagrees with Christanity. In part, this is why Orthodox will pray standing up, bowing, kissing things, lighting candles. It's all ways for the liturgical worship to teach and to structure the proper practice of treating prayer as both a spiritual/noetic/intellect thing and a material physical thing involving your body and what is materially beyond your body.

Humans aren't spiritual beings. Humans are human beings and we are both spiritual and material.

u/seeing_the_light · 2 pointsr/Christianity

>I'm currently waiting for some books by Hans Urs von Balthasar, particularly his book on Saint Maximus the Confessor's cosmology

I would highly recommend this as a good introduction to this subject.

u/Trisagion_und_Isolde · 1 pointr/Christianity

I can only speculate, but St. Maximus' work On the Cosmic Mystery of Christ is probably a factor in that school of thought, which is and isn't neoplatonic.

https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Mystery-Jesus-Christ/dp/088141249X