Maximus's Response to Nestorius

Maximus was just the latest in a long line of ancient philosophers to explain how humans can, as Plato put it, achieve likeness to God. He agreed with Cyril against Nestorius that Christ had two natures but added we should not divide everything about him into those types. Maximus' ethical teaching can be understood only in light of another development within the early Greek-Christian tradition: asceticism.