Ambigua

”Saint Maxim the Confessor's entire work and service, up to martyrdom, of Truth, namely of the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ, are solidly grounded in the conviction that between the authenticity  of spiritual life, on which depend salvation or deification through grace, and the Orthodoxy of faith, there is an uninterrupted connection.

This book, Ambigua, now  in its second edition in Romanian, contains - as the translator and editor of the book argued, Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae - Saint Maxim's entire theology, as a basis of spiritual life. Thus, there is no genuine, full, fruitful spiritual life but that issued from the right and unchanged faith, as it was explained and handed down to us by the Holy Fathers, our teachers of how to live into Christ. For, indeed, as our Lord says: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing and If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in My love (John 15, 5, 10).”

(fragment from Foreword, by
Teoctist
Patriarch of Romanian Orthodox Church)