St. Maximus the confessor’s Quaestiones et dubia Translation

This chapter provides the first English language translation of Maximus the Confessor's Quaestiones et Dubia, a series of 239 questions and responses found in Jose Declerck's Quaestiones et dubia in volume 10 of Corpus Christianorum Series graeca. It focuses on the primary witness of the critical edition — Vaticanus graecus 1703 (Vat.gr. 1703), a manuscript found in the Vatican libraries approximately fifty years ago. There exists a French language translation of Maximus's text by Emmanuel Ponsoye; however, in several places the author's translation departs from Ponsoye's. The chapter argues that the current volume is not meant to include an exhaustive treatment of the Quaestiones et Dubia. It then introduces the Quaestiones et Dubia and provides a brief historical and literary contextual background to help ground and familiarize the reader for a reading of the translation.