Fr. Maximos of Mt. Athos has produced a meticulous scholarly work of the highest order and one worthy of his patron saint, enabling a far wider audience than previously to immerse themselves in the brilliance of one of the greatest works of one of the greatest late-antique theologians.

Nicholas Constas, ed. and trans. Maximos the Confessor, On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua, Volumes I and II. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 28-29. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by Mark DelCogliano, University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota)