Talk:Maximus the Confessor

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1 Quotes
2 Peer Review
3 GA nom on hold
4 Recognized as a Good Article
5 His death

[edit] Quotes

I am moving these unreferenced quotes here. They would add to the article, but unfortunately, whomever found them did not provide citations for them. Please add citations if you know where they came from. -- Pastordavid 03:59, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

He is said to have exclaimed: "I have the faith of the Latins, but the language of the Greeks."^{[citation needed]}

His remarks in 634 are very revealing of the nature of the invading Saracen forces, which he describes as being Jewish, providing first-hand corroboration for the thesis of modern historians who have determined that Islam began as a Judeo-Christian sect.

What could be more dire than the present evils now encompassing the civilized world? To see a barbarous nation of the desert overrunning another land as if it were their own, to see our civilization laid waste by wild and untamed beasts who have merely the shape of a human form. These “beasts are Jews and followers of Antichrist. Repentance by Christians is what is needed to repulse the invaders.

Letter written from Alexandria between 634 and 640.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Peer Review

I have requested a peer review of this article, looking for ways to improve it. Comments can be left on the peer review page. Thanks, -- Pastordavid 10:53, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA nom on hold

Very good article. I almost passed it, but I would like to see a little clarification/expansion. The article is well-reference and well-written. However, there is a grammatical error in the first line of the "Trial and exile" section. The "legacy" section should be expanded. It says he has been overlooked in the West until recently. How has he been recognized in recent years, by whom and in what context? Also in what year was he sainted? Besides these few minor points, it's a good article. Address these concerns and leave a message here when completed and the review will procede. If nothing is done in a reasonable period of time the article could fail it's nomination.--William Thweatt ^Talk | ^Contribs 05:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Fixed the grammatical error. Mrhsj 06:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I have added a para. on Maximus' veneration/acclamation (he is a pre-congregation saint in the Western tradition; i.e., no formal process of beatification/canonization), as well as noting those facts in the info box. So as not to distract from the primary content of the article, I include detailed info about the east/west differences in the notes. -- Pastordavid 00:40, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recognized as a Good Article

Thanks to everybody for your work so far. Some ways to further improve the article might include expansion of the "legacy" section to include any modern studies, opinions, etc. concerning his relevance to the modern Christian and some general fleshing out of the details of the other sections.--William Thweatt ^Talk | ^Contribs 03:40, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] His death

Is it proper to state that Maximus died of "natural causes" after being "tortured, having his tongue cut out and his right hand cut off"? (I suspect that by "natural causes" this is in contrast to death from murder.) Considering his age, I'd have to suspect that the physical abuse he received must have contributed to his death. I suspect that it would be better to simply write that he died. -- llywrch 04:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

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