Table of Contents

Part One. Historical Setting
1: Pauline Allen: Life and Times of Maximus the Confessor
2: Marek Jankowiak and Phil Booth: An Updated Date-List of the Works of Maximus the Confessor
3: Walter E. Kaegi: Byzantium in the Seventh Century
4: Cyril Hovorun: Maximus, a Cautious Chalcedonian
Part Two. Theological and Philosophical Influences
5: Marius Portaru: Classical Philosophical Influences: Aristotle and Platonism
6: Pascal Mueller-Jourdan: The Foundation of Origenist Metaphysics
7: Marcus Plested: Theological and Philosophical Influences: The Ascetic Tradition
8: Ysabel De Andia: Dionysius Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor
9: Raymond J. Laird: Mindset (*g*n)wµ*h) in John Chrysostom
10: Johannes Börjesson: Augustine on the Will
11: Bronwen Neil: Divine Providence and the Gnomic Will before Maximus
Part Three. Works and Thought
12: Paul M. Blowers: Exegesis of Scripture
13: Peter Van Deun: Maximus the Confessor's Use of Literary Genres
14: Demetrios Bathrellos: Passions, Ascesis, and the Virtues
15: Torstein T. Tollefsen: Christocentric Cosmology
16: Andreas Andreopoulos: Eschatology in Maximus the Confessor
17: Jean-Claude Larchet: The Mode of Deification
18: Adam Cooper: Spiritual Anthropology in Ambiguum 7
19: Doru Costache: Mapping Reality within the Experience of Holiness
20: George Berthold: Christian Life and Praxis: The Centuries on Love
21: Thomas Cattoi: Liturgy as Cosmic Transformation
Part Four. Reception
22: Lela Khoperia: The Georgian Tradition on Maximus the Confessor
23: Grigory Benevich: Maximus' Heritage in Russia and Ukraine
24: Catherine Kavanagh: The Impact of Maximus the Confessor on John Scottus Eriugena
25: Andrew Louth: Maximus the Confessor's Influence and Reception in Byzantine and Modern Orthodoxy
26: Ian A. McFarland: The Theology of the Will
27: Michael Bakker: Maximus and Modern Psychology
28: Edward Siecienski: Maximus the Confessor and Ecumenism
29: Joshua Lollar: Reception of Maximian Thought in the Modern Era

About the Author

Pauline Allen is Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University, Brisbane. A former Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, she has worked on homiletic literature, Maximus the Confessor, the Council of Chalcedon, Severus of Antioch, John Chrysostom, and late-antique letter-writing. She is co-author of The Churches of Syrian Antioch, 300-638 CE (Leuven,
2012). She is research associate in the Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, and past president of the Association Internationale d'Études Patristiques. Bronwen Neil is Assistant Director of the
Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University (Brisbane). Neil has produced critical editions and translations of texts pertaining to Maximus the Confessor, and Pope Martin I. Other works on papal writings include annotated translations of Pope Gelasius' letters (with Pauline Allen) and selected letters and sermons of Pope Leo I, and A Companion to Gregory the Great, co-edited with Matthew Dal Santo. She has also published on poverty and welfare in Late
Antiquity, and crisis management by late-antique bishops. She is current president of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a former Fellow of the
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.

Reviews

this Handbook is a monumental and much-needed publication, which will definitely mark the field of Maximian studies for the next generations of scholars.
*Dr Sotiris Mitralexis, Vigiliae Christianae*