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On the Lord's Prayer
Hidden depths in familiar words
Maximos the Confessor finds the entire theology of the spiritual life embedded in the Lord's Prayer — each petition containing a complete teaching on creation, human nature, divine providence, and final union with God.
The text demonstrates Maximos's characteristic method of reading liturgical practice as theology — finding cosmic significance in the details of prayer. More accessible than his centuries, this commentary offers a good introduction to how Maximos reads everything: as pointing toward the one thing the whole creation is moving toward.