Eschatology in Maximus the Confessor

Maximus struggled with the question of apocatastasis as it was known since the time of Origen, but did not address the concept of the time of God, or time beyond time, or the eighth day, only in a linear way. Instead, he reframed the question and examined it in a different context. Rather than place the dwelling of the soul in God at the end of linear time, he placed the end of time at the union of the soul and God. Maximus approached eschatology in relation to personal and ecclesial salvation and union with God, connecting it with protology, the time before time, and also exploring it in a mystagogical way. Although he considered the eschaton, the Second Coming of Christ and the time of God from many points of view, it is perhaps in his liturgical writings that we can find the clearest exposition of his eschatology.