499 A Note on the Deinition of χρόνος and αἰὼν in St. Maximus the Confessor through Aristotle A Note on the Deinition of χρόνος and αἰὼν in St. Maximus the Confessor through Aristotle Sotiris Mitralexis In this short note we will try (i) to outline the Aristotelian conditions of the Maximian deinition of time (χρόνος) and eter- nity (αἰών) 1 , (ii) to underline the implications of Maximus the Confessor’s deinition and (iii) to formulate propositions about the relationship of time and eternity with Maximus’ “ever-moving repose” (στάσις ἀεικίνητος) and “stationary movement” (στάσιμος ταυτοκινησία) in relation to the human person. 1 A shorter or longer study of the maximian perspective concerning χρόνος and αἰὼν is to be found in nearly every major study of Maximus the Confessor’s works (von Balthasar, hunberg etc.), but more speciically in the monograph by Pascal Muel- ler-Jourdan, Typologie spatio-temporelle de l’Ecclesia byzantine. La Mystagogie de Max- ime le Confesseur dans la culture philosophique de l’Antiquité tardive, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 74, Leiden: Brill, 2005, in Paul Plass’ article “Transcedent Time in Maximus the Confessor” (homist; a Speculative Quarterly Review, 44:2 (1980:April) p.259), in Edward Epsen’s article “Eternity is a Present, Time is its Unwrapping” (Heythrop Journal, LI (2010), pp. 417–429) and in the paper presented by Andrew Louth: “Time and Space in Maximos the Confessor”at the conference “Neopla- tonism and St. Maximus the Confessor” (Athens 2008, under publication), among others. Apart from these, exceptionally fruitful references to the subject are to be found in Christos Yannaras’ and John Zizioulas’ works. he brevity of this paper re- quires that we express some thoughts parallel to these studies, without comprehen- sively presentating them.