Ambigua to Thomas and Second Letter to Thomas

Maximus's earliest set of Ambigua — five 'difficulties' (ambigua) addressed to Abba Thomas, treating cruxes in the theology of St. Gregory Nazianzen and St. Dionysius the Areopagite. The Second Letter to Thomas, appended in this edition, returns to the same Christological themes after the Monothelite controversy had begun. Distinguished from the longer and later Ambigua to John (CPG 7705a). The earliest substantial work of Maximus's mature theological synthesis.