Against Idolization of Irrationality:

Two Maximian Perspectives on the Benefits of Academic Theology

Authors

• Andreas Bergman

Keywords:

Maximus the Confessor, irrationality, academic theology

Abstract

Paper presented at the Symposium of scholars of Orthodoxy in Joensuu 11th November 2021

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