Kevin Clarke on St. Maximus the Confessor: One Christ, Two Wills

Kevin Clarke of Sacred Heart Seminary joins Sam Bennett and Dominic Cassella to discuss St. Maximus the Confessor’s Opuscula and Dispute with Pyrrhus. Clarke’s new translation and introduction is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Opuscula-Dispute-Pyrrhus-Theological-Polemical/dp/0813240824We talk about why Maximus defended two wills and two activities in Christ, why his opponents thought this threatened Christ’s unity, and what was at stake for salvation. Other topics include Christ’s fear in Gethsemane, human freedom and deliberation, his experience of temptation and suffering, and Dionysius’s description of Christ’s “theandric activity.”