One of the outstanding Christian thinkers of all time, Maximus the Confessor (ca. 580-662) exerted a powerful formative influence on the Church when it was still one and undivided. Maximus left his stamp on Christianity as it is now recognized by all three broad streams of Christian faith: Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant. Yet for centuries the detailed study of Maximus's writings was neglected. The first edition of Thunberg's Microcosm and Mediator (1965) helped to transform this situation of indifference into one of intense interest in Maximus and the subtleties of his thinking. This new edition has been revised and expanded, with updated references and bibliographies. The focus of Microcosm and Mediator is Maximus's anthropology, his highly developed general reflections on human nature. Maximus understands man as, not only a being - a microcosm - who reflects the constitution of the created universe, but also as a being - a mediator - created in the image of God, whose task it is, in Christ, to reconcile the spiritual and the sensible into one homogeneous unity.
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Lars Thunberg has been Assistant Professor of Dogmatics, Uppsala University and Lund University, Sweden, and Associate Professor of Missiology and Ecumenical Theology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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Paper Back. Condition: New. This pioneering and still preeminent study, published in 1965, was the first monograph in English devoted to St. Maximus the Confessor (ca. 580-662), arguably the most important of the Greek Fathers between the Cappadocians and St. Gregory Palamas. A little familiarity with the Fathers triggers certain associations (allowing for gross simplification in all cases, of course): 'recapitulation' with Irenaeus, the Incarnation with Athanasius, deification with Gregory Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa. With Maximus, the key word might be 'cosmological.' In his work as a whole we find a meticulous integration of all the great themes of patristic thought, with a distinctive emphasis on the human person as 'microcosm and mediator' between God and the created order. He is the object of perichoresis, the divine permeation, but through the Incarnation, human nature also reciprocally permeates the divine. Maximus' foundational and thoroughly orthodox Christology expands outward to unite his entire cosmology: 'the Christological combination of inseparable unity and preserved identity is . . . equally characteristic both of the relationship of God to creation and of the different entities of creation in relation to one another.' Thunberg systematically describes Maximus' account of the nature of creation, the constitution of man, his disintegration through the passions and re-integration through the virtues, and the varieties of mediation-between the sexes, between heaven and earth, nature visible and invisible, God and creation. The study concludes with a discussion of Maximus' vision of deification not as the highest stage of some ideal spiritual perfection, but the natural outworking of Christ's communication of divine energies to us through the Incarnation. Time has revealed the lasting value of Thunberg's work, and this second edition includes a thoroughly updated and comprehensive bibliography. 488 pp. Seller Inventory # 42191
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