Logoi

The Logos is the centre of all the logoi, i.e. the divine acts of will that are eternally conceived but expressed at the moment of creation. Through the logoi a well-ordered cosmos is instituted. The logoi are the principles behind procession (creation) and convertion, and behind the metaphysical structure that Maximus calls expansion and contraction. The chapter ends with a discussion of the ontological structure of created being, especially of rational nature, i.e. man.--- Tollefsen