Maximus is clearly anxious to get him to withdraw or explain the mistaken expression, without exasperating him by contradiction. Maximus gives him rather fulsome praise, as an introduction to the question (which he puts with much diffidence and many excuses) what Pyrrhus means by one energeia or energema. Pyrrhus had published a work on the Incarnation, for which St. Maximus was perhaps already in Africa when he wrote it. As the letter is said to have entailed a long voyage on the monks who carried it St. Maximus that we know of in this affair is a letter sent by him to Pyrrhus, then an abbot at Chrysopolis, a friend and supporter of Sergius, Patriarch of Constantinople, the patron of the Monothelite expression "two operations". 13), so that he probably passed some time with him, and he was with him in Africa with other monks during the preparations which issued in the "watery union" by which Cyrus the Patriarch reconciled a number of Monophysites to the Church by rejecting the doctrine of "two operations" in Christ (see MONOTHELITISM). Sophronius afterwards Patriarch of Jerusalem, as his master, father, and teacher (Ep. He became abbot there- but seems to have left this retreat on account of its insecurity from hostile attacks. He became first secretary to the Emperor Heraclius, who prized him much, but he quitted the world and gave himself up to contemplation in a monastery at Chrysopolis, opposite Constantinople. This great man was of a noble family of Constantinople. He is one of the chief names in the Monothelite controversy one of the chief doctors of the theology of the Incarnation and of ascetic mysticism, and remarkable as a witness to the respect for the papacy held by the Greek Church in his day. Known as the Theologian and as Maximus Confessor, born at Constantinople about 580 died in exile 13 August, 662. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.
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