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‘Naturally and by grace’: Maximus the Confessor on the operation of the will

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2005

Ian A. McFarland
Ian A. McFarland
Affiliation:
Candler School of Theology, 109B, Bishops Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, [email protected]
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Abstract

Although Maximus' and Augustine's theologies of the will were shaped by very different polemical contexts, it is arguable that the two thinkers were interested in securing the same theological ground. In response to positions that treated the will as a reserve of human autonomy over against God, both thinkers sought to see the freedom of the will as a function of its integration into the natural order through grace. Maximus' concept of the natural will in particular functions as a means of challenging both divine determinism and human libertarianism as adequate accounts of the relationship between divine and human activity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , November 2005 , pp. 410 - 433
Copyright
Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2005

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