Maximus the Confessor’s Thomistic Legacy

Corey J. Stephan

Pages: approx. xiv + 150 p.
Size:152 x 229 mm

Language(s):English
Publication Year:2026

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BIO

Corey J. Stephan holds a BA summa cum laude in Classical Languages and Theology from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, an MTS from the Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry, and a PhD in Religious Studies with the major area of historical theology from Marquette University. His broad fields of study are patristics and the theology of the Latin medieval and Greek Byzantine periods, and his research areas are late Greek patristic Christology and cosmology, as well as their Latin Scholastic reception.

Summary

This study in historical theology locates Maximus the Confessor’s Christology in the hybrid Greek and Latin milieu in which it originally flourished, with the aim of tracing the paths taken by Maximus’s writings that enabled Thomas Aquinas to rehabilitate Maximus’s contributions to the Church’s conciliar heritage for the entire subsequent Latin tradition.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Notes on Editions and Translations
Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION
Maximus, Thomas, and Christology through the Ages
CHAPTER ONE
Maximus Between Greek East and Latin West
CHAPTER TWO
John Damascene: Maximus’s Disciple and Transmitter
CHAPTER THREE
Latin Editions of Maximus’s Writings
CHAPTER FOUR
Maximus in the Scholastic Latin West
CHAPTER FIVE
Maximianism’s Other Textual Pathways to Thomas
CHAPTER SIX
Thomas the Maximian
CONCLUSION
Maximus, Thomas, and Modern Ecclesial Communion
Bibliography
Index