This short communication is laying out Maximus’ ascetical logic in order to show that in Maximus’ view there is a place in the renewed world both for the sensible as for the intelligible creation.
The Expositio orationis dominicae is Maximus’ most succinct spiritual exegesis of Scripture which, according to him, yields seven revelations or mysteries about the salvation of humanity: “theology, adoption in grace, equality of honour with the angels, participation in eternal life, the restoration of nature to itself ... the abolition of the law of sin, and the overthrowing of the tyranny of evil.” Maximus speaks briefly about each of these at the beginning of the Expositio orationis dominicae linking every one of them with a specific petition in the Lord’s Prayer. The thread that goes through all these mysteries is the believer’s imitation of Christ’s ke/nwsij, demonstrating how this translates into the believer’s encounter with the affairs of the world. Maximus insists that by his ke/nwsij, Christ re-affirms God’s assessment of the created order as being good, and confirms his plan for a final transformation and unification.
In a relatively short text one can see a linear development of Maximus’ ascetical thinking which shows the gist of his view otherwise dispersed throughout his corpus of works. Maximus’ connection of the mysteries – which present the highlights of his ascetical ideal – assert that each mystery is discovered through the believer’s commitment to carry out the spiritual plan that proceeds from praying the Lord’s Prayer. This plan God carries through Christ, and subsequently through the believers who participate and imitate him. It is this mutual kenotic movement by which the believer "by the humbling of the passions … takes on divinity in the same measure that the Word of God [became] genuinely man."
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