Maximus the Confessor and Evolutionary Biology

<p>This book brings Maximus the Confessor’s <i>logoi</i> doctrine into dialogue with modern-day evolutionary biology. It explores the extent to which the <i>logoi</i> as described by Maximus exhibit features that are concordant with evolution before going on to consider more discordant aspects that cannot be ignored. The author addresses the curious resonance between the <i>logoi</i> and evolution in a systematic way through a close reading of primary textual material allied with a deep understanding of both the classical Darwinian and ‘extended’ evolutionary syntheses. The study joins with other Maximian interpreters in attesting to the incarnational and theophanic nature of the <i>logoi</i> but seeks to extend this distinctively Eastern Christo-cosmology into the problematic territory of biological evolution a territory historically dominated by Western scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion and science as well as Patristics and the Eastern Orthodox theological traditions.</p>