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CHRIST0L0GYAND ANTHROPOLOGY INTH8SPIRITUA11TY0PMAXIMUS THEC0NFESS0R With special reference to the Expositio Orationis Dominicas by James Nicholas Madden O. C. D. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Durham 1982 all^ Durham The copyright of this thesis rests with the author. No quotation from it should be published without his prior written consent and information derived from it should be acknowledged.

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his
works
and
their
contents.
Again
in
a
decisive
battle
and
had
brought
the
relics
of
the
Holy
Cross
from the tendentious
by
now
credited
with
having
composed
the
light
from
the
Logos
and
leads
of
a
more
explicit
grasp
of
the
meaning
of
the
words
this
constitution
of
a
charity
that
is
founded
on
the
Incarnate
Word
as
the
organising
principle
of
the
whole
body
of
to
a
knowledge
through
proper
causes
that
can
claim
the
title
of
&XLo'tiijif
have
immediate
contact.
This
love
too
must
be
himself. He
the
produc-
tion
and
of
the
creation
of
the
whole
universe
gýd
as
divinisation,
since
the
Fathers
normally
discuss
this
one nature
they
are
identical
and
doing
so
in
perfect
freedom,
something
warranted
Trinity
so
that
voUQ,
Person
who
makes
the
divinity
His
prayer
human
destiny
fruit
of
that
was
common
to
all
the
XoyLxoC
as
created.
of
his
icpoaCpeaLC
inclined
are
simultaneous
with
each
other
inadvert-
and
pre-
existent.
(150)
By
contrast,
The
flesh
of
Christ
was
never
an
hypostasis,
because
never,
ivOstior.
purification3
(2)
It
.T
and
6(oC
cßocw6
in
this
context
which
exercise
of
free-choice,
we
can
in
divine
nature
and,
having
become
atoOnot,
Hominie
0
ificio,
Cant. 5.
which
is
so
finely
in
Dom.
le
Confesseur',
p.
143.
Thelema
90,961A;
ibid.,
1,7,
PG
90,961CD.
Vide
W00D,
P.
and
Likeness
of
God,
pp.
120-123.
p.
198.
Vide
e.
g.
Pyrr.
PG
9T-9
and
affection,
one
charity
consisting
of
reverence
and
goodwill,
so
that
fear
shipped
of
affection
may
not
free
choice
of
those
born.
for
slaughter
(Ps.