Maximus the Confessor (580–662 AD) was a Byzantine Christian theologian and monk, one of the greatest theologians in Christian history. He defended the two wills of Christ against monothelitism. (Note: also appears as 'St. Maximus the Confessor' at ID 20.)
Greatest systematic theologian of Eastern Christianity; defender of Chalcedonian orthodoxy; his cosmic theology of deification shapes Orthodox thought.
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