Christian monk, theologian, scholar and saint (c. 580 - 662)
A 7th-century monk who had his tongue and right hand cut off for insisting Jesus possessed two wills — one human, one divine. The mutilation was meant to silence him; the Church later called him right.
Maximus started as a civil servant and aide to Byzantine Emperor Heraclius before trading politics for monasticism around 580. Steeped in Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists — Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus — he was pulled into theological combat when a friend embraced Monothelitism, the view that Christ had only one will. Maximus argued from the Chalcedonian formula that Jesus held both human and divine wills, a position that led to trial, the brutal removal of his tongue and right hand, and exile. He died 13 August 662 in Tsageri, in what is now Georgia. The Third Council of Con…
Sourced, dated quotes from Maximus the Confessor
And with animals, if we approach them in a rational way we shall find a trace of the intelligible in them which is a not unworthy imitation of what is above reason.
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