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from Part II - Christological Perspectives after Constantinople II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2022
Ambiguum 5 to Thomas is a work of Maximus that stems from his early involvement in the monoenergist controversy discussed in the introduction to Ambiguum 31 to John. In 634 or 635 Maximus undertook interpretations of four key passages in Gregory of Nazianzus (Ambigua 1–4 to Thomas) and one key passage in a letter of pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (Ambigua 5 to Thomas). Maximus had already written a much longer series of expositions on difficulties (hence the name “Ambigua”) in Gregory of Nazianzus’s works (Ambigua 6–71 to John). In those he used puzzling passages to develop far-reaching theologies of creation, incarnation, and deification. In the Ambigua to Thomas Maximus exploits the same genre to refute monoenergist positions. Thomas was a monk, but that is all we can say with any certainty of the treatises’ addressee.
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