![]() In the first curtains rise on an embattled Byzantium. The whole comprises four parts, and Part I two chapters. Still, it’s exactly the “theo-dramatic” bits of Maximus’s theology that Blowers wants to recover. Perhaps instead he extends a deft, guiding hand through the expanse of Maximus’s thought. Perhaps Blowers doesn’t yet break the seventh seal. Does the publication of Paul Blowers’s Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World signal the eve before the great and terrible day of Maximus? Or is it already upon us? Alright, perhaps I’ve indulged some drama. Hans Urs von Balthasar, Polycarp Sherwood, Lars Thunberg – each spoke Maximus’s name into a largely heedless Western audience. Wait and keep watch, they’ve cautioned: the Maximian synthesis draws ever close. ![]() Readers of Maximus Confessor have long whispered of a gathering insurrection. ![]()
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