Download or read book The Body in St Maximus the Confessor written by Adam G. Cooper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary scholarship recognises in Maximus the Confessor a theologian of towering intellectual importance. In this book Adam Cooper puts to him the question of what is the place of the material order and, specifically, of the human body, in God's creative, redemptive, and perfective economies?