Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings is translated by George C. Berthold and forms part of The Classics of Western Spiritality series. This book contains critically selected writings from Maximus Confessor. Maximus is called the Confessor because of his sufferings and labors for the true faith. During the seventh century when the monothelite heresy (belief that Christ had only one will--a divine one) plagued the Church, Maximus eloquently demonstrated that Christ had both human and divine natures. Writing in the introductionto this volume, Jaroslav Pelikan highlights the relevance of Maximus' writings for today. 'It was the genius of Maximux Confessor that, in a measure thathas beengranted only to a few, he was fully bilingual, affirming by means of negation and speaking both the language of spirituality and the language of theology with equal fluency.'
