The Authenticity of Maximus the Confessors Letter to Marinus:

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" The Authenticity of Maximus the Confessors Letter to Marinus: "
A. Edward Siecienski

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085109
Doc. No	:	LA128738
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157007207X195349‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	A. Edward Siecienski
Title & Author	:	The Authenticity of Maximus the Confessors Letter to Marinus: [Article] : The Argument from Theological Consistency\ A. Edward Siecienski
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Vigiliae Christianae
Date	:	2007
Volume/ Issue Number	:	61/2
Page No	:	189–227
Abstract	:	Maximus the Confessor's Letter to Marinus (PG 91, 136) has been used throughout the centuries by both Latins and Greeks to defend their respective positions vis-à-vis the filioque. Yet doubts about its authenticity, raised by both sides, have prevented its acceptance as representative of the consensus patrum on the procession of the Holy Spirit. This paper argues that the best case for the authenticity of the Letter, all other doubts aside, is its consistency with the trinitarian principles Maximus inherited from the earlier fathers and established in his other works. For this reason the Letter to Marinus continues to offer modern theologians and ecumenists the best hope for resolving the age old question of the filioque based on the earliest known patristic reference to the debate. Maximus the Confessor's Letter to Marinus (PG 91, 136) has been used throughout the centuries by both Latins and Greeks to defend their respective positions vis-à-vis the filioque. Yet doubts about its authenticity, raised by both sides, have prevented its acceptance as representative of the consensus patrum on the procession of the Holy Spirit. This paper argues that the best case for the authenticity of the Letter, all other doubts aside, is its consistency with the trinitarian principles Maximus inherited from the earlier fathers and established in his other works. For this reason the Letter to Marinus continues to offer modern theologians and ecumenists the best hope for resolving the age old question of the filioque based on the earliest known patristic reference to the debate.
Descriptor	:	AUGUSTINE
Descriptor	:	CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA
Descriptor	:	FILIOQUE
Descriptor	:	GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS
Descriptor	:	GREGORY OF NYSSA
Descriptor	:	PERICHORESIS
Descriptor	:	PHOTIUS
Descriptor	:	PROCESSIO
Descriptor	:	TRINITY
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157007207X195349‬