THE UNION OF MAN AND CREATION WITH GOD, REFLECTED IN THE "MEDITATIONS" OF SAINT MAXIM THE CONFESSOR
THE UNION OF MAN AND CREATION WITH GOD, REFLECTED IN THE "MEDITATIONS" OF SAINT MAXIM THE CONFESSOR

Summary/Abstract: The union of man and creation with God, reflected in the "meditations" of StMaximus Confessor. God created all that exists out of love, wishing to share Hiseternally good existence with all creation. But the world cannot enter into a personalrelationship with God, not being a person. That is why the Creator has placed in itsmidst man, who is the rational and personal representative of creation. He has beenendowed with the vocation of uniting all that exists within himself and drawing thewhole world into the most intimate communion with God. St Maximus Confessordescribes this vocation of man through a series of five mediations that Adam had tocarry out: mediation between man and woman, paradise and the inhabited world,heaven and earth, the intelligible and the sensible, the created and the uncreated.

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