Holy flesh, wholly deified The place of the body in the theological vision of Saint Maximus the Confessor

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Maximus the Confessor is increasingly being recognised as a theologian of towering ecumenical importance.Here I put to him a question which from the origins of Christian thought until the present constitutes an interpretative crux for catholic Christianity: what is the nature and function of the material order and, specifically, of the human body, in God's creative, redemptive, and perfective economies?The thesis unfolds in five chapters under the rubrics of epistemology, cosmology, christology, ecclesiology, and spirituality.Each specifies an integral dimension in the Confessor's theological vision through which I engage his central motif: God the Word wills always to be embodied in all things.By virtue of their respective teleological orientation to Christ the incarnate Word, creation, history, and the virtuous life each functions as a pedagogical strategy by which the transcendent God simultaneously conceals and reveals himself with the aim of leading all creation, including the bod

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