Ana Palanciuc - The modes of being in Maximus Confessor's Ambigua

In the Ambigua, Maximus the Confessor develops a theory of the modes (tropoi) of being that reminds the writings of Gregory of Nazianzus and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, but also the Neoplatonic School in Athens. Although the question of existence is never considered as such, the entire patristic tradition followed by Maximus correlates the existence with the essence. The existence is an aspect of the conditions of internal possibility of ousia, an ousia integrating all manifestations of ousia-einai. In the maximian reformulation, the mode of being receives the role of specifying the participation to being, in order to bring into existence the good contained in its own logos and toward which the essential properties are oriented: coming to being on the same way as the logos comes as "logos of the being", inside and with ousia, maintaining the logos irrigated by its essential properties.