{"product_id":"on-difficulties-in-the-church-fathers-vol-1-the-ambigua-harvard-uni-press-hc","title":"On Difficulties in the Church Fathers, Vol. 1: The Ambigua Harvard Uni. 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His profound spiritual experiences and penetrating theological vision found complex and often astonishing expression in his unparalleled command of Greek philosophy, making him one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. So thoroughly did his thought come to influence the Byzantine theological tradition that it is impossible to trace the subsequent history of Orthodox Christianity without knowledge of his work.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;'\u003eAmbigua\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'\u003e (or “Book of Difficulties”) is Maximos’s greatest philosophical and doctrinal work, in which his daring originality, prodigious talent for speculative thinking, and analytical acumen are on lavish display. 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