Maximus the Confessor
Byzantine monk whose Ambiguum 7 and Quaestiones ad Thalassium are this corpus’s primary texts for logoi, synergy, and theosis. For TAG, his participation account is Orthodoxy’s strongest conditional explanation of mind-world fit, with an error-and-correction path through purification and natural contemplation. What the checked passages do not demonstrate is a finished belief-to-world proof, or a derived categorical ought.
Maximus is the Byzantine monk whose cosmology and anthropology this research keeps returning to: logoi in the Logos, being / well-being / eternal well-being, synergy, the two wills of Christ. Tollefsen is the specialist this program has actually read alongside him.
For OTC-022 he supplies the densest Orthodox ontology of the good in the checked primary texts, and still not a derived categorical ought. For OTC-001, natural contemplation is a reliability/access candidate, not a completed world-directed TAG. Recapitulation material from the Tollefsen interview is filed; it does not close Trinity-cardinality.
The mistaken everyday reading is "the Orthodox Aquinas" as if one systematic summa will settle the ledger. Maximus is harder than that, and the packets say where he has been read and where he has not.
Where this comes up
Sources
- Maximus, Ambiguum 7 (Constas); Library case “Can an argument reach the world?”; Debby packets on natural contemplation and the logoi ought-bridge