Maximus the Confessor
Writings
Writings
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* *[Ambigua ad Iohannem](/wiki/Ambigua_ad_Iohannem "Ambigua ad Iohannem")* ("Difficult Passages Addressed to John")
* *[Ambigua ad Thomam](/wiki/Ambigua_ad_Thomam "Ambigua ad Thomam")* ("Difficult Passages Addressed to Thomas")
* *[Capita XV](/wiki/Capita_XV "Capita XV")* ("Fifteen Chapters")
* *[Capita de caritate](/wiki/Capita_de_caritate "Capita de caritate")* ("Chapters on Charity")
* *[Capita theologica et oeconomica](/wiki/Capita_theologica_et_oeconomica "Capita theologica et oeconomica")* (Chapters on Theology and the Economy)
* *[Computus ecclesiasticus](/wiki/Computus_ecclesiasticus "Computus ecclesiasticus")* ("Ecclesiastical Computation")
* *[Disputatio cum Pyrrho](/wiki/Disputatio_cum_Pyrrho "Disputatio cum Pyrrho")* ("Dispute with Pyrrhus")
* *[Epistulae I–XLV](/wiki/Epistulae_I%E2%80%93XLV "Epistulae I–XLV")* ("[Epistles](/wiki/Epistles "Epistles") 1–45")
* *[Expositio orationis dominicae](/wiki/Expositio_orationis_dominicae "Expositio orationis dominicae")* ("Commentary on the Lord's Prayer")
* *[Expositio in Psalmum LIX](/wiki/Expositio_in_psalmum_LIX "Expositio in psalmum LIX")* ("Commentary on Psalm 59")
* *[Liber Asceticus](/wiki/Liber_Asceticus "Liber Asceticus")* ("On the Ascetic Life")
* *[Mystagogia](/wiki/Mystagogia "Mystagogia")* ("Mystagogy")
* *[Maximi Epistola ad Anastasium monachum discipulum](/wiki/Maximi_Epistola_ad_Anastasium_monachum_discipulum "Maximi Epistola ad Anastasium monachum discipulum")* ("Letter of Maximus to Anastasius the Monk and Disciple")
* *[Opuscula theologica et polemica](/wiki/Opuscula_theologica_et_polemica "Opuscula theologica et polemica")* ("Small Theological and Polemical Works")
* *[Quaestiones et dubia](/wiki/Quaestiones_et_dubia "Quaestiones et dubia")* ("Questions and Doubtful Passages")
* *[Quaestiones ad Thalassium](/wiki/Quaestiones_ad_Thalassium "Quaestiones ad Thalassium")* ("Questions Addressed to Thalassius")
* *[Questiones ad Theopemptum](/wiki/Questiones_ad_Theopemptum "Questiones ad Theopemptum")* ("Questions Addressed to Theopemptus")
* *[Testimonia et syllogismi](/wiki/Testimonia_et_syllogismi "Testimonia et syllogismi")* ("Testimonies and Syllogisms")

**Attributed texts**
* *[Scholia](/wiki/Scholia_%28Maximus_the_Confessor%29 "Scholia (Maximus the Confessor)")* – commentary on the earlier writings of Pseudo\-Dionysius. The original edition in Latin of Balthasar Corderius (Antwerp 1634\) attributes all of the Scholia to Maximus, but the authorship has been questioned with [Hans Urs von Balthasar](/wiki/Hans_Urs_von_Balthasar "Hans Urs von Balthasar") (1940, 1961\) attributing some of the Scholia to [John of Scythopolis](/wiki/John_of_Scythopolis "John of Scythopolis").Cosmic liturgy: the universe according to Maximus the Confessor – Page 393 [Hans Urs von Balthasar](/wiki/Hans_Urs_von_Balthasar "Hans Urs von Balthasar") 1961 English translation 2003
* *[Life of the Virgin](/wiki/Life_of_the_Virgin_%28Biography%29 "Life of the Virgin (Biography)")* – earliest complete biography of Mary, the mother of Jesus.Stephen J. Shoemaker, trans., [*Maximus the Confessor, The Life of the Virgin: Translated, with an Introduction and Notes*](http://yalepress.yale.edu/YupBooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300175042)  (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012\) (); [Maximus's Mary](http://commonwealmagazine.org/maximus%E2%80%99s-mary), by Sally Cuneen, *Commonweal Magazine*, 4 December 2009 This is an attributed work and now believed not to be by Maximus the Confessor. Jankowiak and Booth argue that "none of Maximus' characteristic preoccupations appear in the *Life*, and in turn none of the *Life'* s central themes appear in the fleeting Marian reflections contained within his genuine corpus". They also write that there is no Greek manuscript witnessing the text, no evidence that any key thinkers who draw on Maximus were aware of the *Life'* s existence and that no record of the *Life* as a work exists prior to the second half of the tenth century.

**Collections**

* *Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality)*. Ed. George C. Berthold. Paulist Press, 1985\. .
* *On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings from St. Maximus the Confessor (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series)*. Ed. \& Trans Paul M. Blowers, Robert Louis Wilken. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004\. .
* *St. Maximus the Confessor: The Ascetic Life, The Four Centuries on Charity (Ancient Christian Writers)*. Ed. Polycarp Sherwood. Paulist Press, 1955\. .
* *Maximus the Confessor (The Early Church Fathers)* Intro. \& Trans. Andrew Louth. Routledge, 1996\. 
* *Maximus the Confessor and his Companions (Documents from Exile) (Oxford Early Christian Texts)*. Ed. and Trans. Pauline Allen, Bronwen Neil. Oxford University Press, 2004\. .
* *On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua: Volume I, Maximos the Confessor*. Ed. and Trans. Nicholas Constas. London: Harvard University Press, 2014\. .
* *On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua: Volume II, Maximos the Confessor*. Ed. and Trans. Nicholas Constas. London: Harvard University Press, 2014\. .
* *The Philokalia: The Complete Text compiled by St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth: Volume II*. Ed. and Trans. G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, Kallistos Ware. London: Faber and Faber, 1981\. .


What is a fleeting Marian reflection contained within his genuine corpus?