“St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662) lived, historically and to some extent geographically, betwixt and between.” He lived in the transition period between the early and medieval Christian theology schools. He lived in a time where the Councils of Nicaea (325), Constantinople (381), and Chalcedon (451) had already incorporated their way into the Nicene Theology, but before the entire foundation of this theology had been laid. Having been part of this world, he left his political office as the first secretary of the Emperor, and left to a monastery where his most important theological work was put together, The Ambigua. His spiritual experiences, along with his exposure to Greek philosophy made him one of the most challenging and original …show more content…
He is simply saying that Christ united as all in Himself, and that is what removed the difference between male and female, but reduced them to human beings that were formed according to Him, bearing His image intact and incorrupt. This is a take on Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Greek nor Jew, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” that is also referenced earlier on in his work. Man can be found on each side of the division, and in order to fully mediate between these divisions is to accept that all beings, in their true logos, have at least something in common with one another. However, man is found on each side of the division because as the universe man was made out of nothing, ex nihilo, as the universe was made out of nothing. Nevertheless, God created man in His own image and likeness, setting him aside from the rest of creation. In addition, through the grace of God, and by a way of life proper to the Saints and by imitating the virtue of life of the angels, the human person is able to mediate between these divisions or realms. We saw that this is possible through the Gospel of Christ, however, we still see it today through the metaphysical or rather miraculous stories that we hear in the lives of the