Description: Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his greatest philosophical and doctrinal work, in which daring originality, prodigious talent for speculative thinking, and analytical acumen are on lavish display. The result is a labyrinthine map of the mind's journey to God.
Brief description: Nicholas Constas is Professor of Patristics and Orthodox Spirituality at Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, MA.