Blog Template Theology of the Body: Maximus the Confessor, 580-662

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Maximus the Confessor, 580-662


"For out of God's infinite longing for humankind he has himself become by nature that for which He longed, neither suffering anything in His own nature in his inexpressible self-emptying, nor changing anything of what is human through His ineffable assumption, nor in any way diminishing nature, which the Word properly supports as constituting it."