Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor

by Hans Urs von Balthasar

Maximus the Confessor, saint and martyr, is the theologian of synthesis: of Rome and Byzantium, of Eastern and Western theology, of antiquity and the Middle Ages, reexcavating the great treasures of Christian tradition, which at that time had been buried by imperial and ecclesial censure.

Von Balthasar was an authority on the Church Fathers--Irenaeus, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Evagrius Ponticus, Augustine, and above all, Maximus the Confessor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898707587
• ISBN13: 9780898707588
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"