Orthodoxy, Maximus Confessor, gnomic will

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Someone familiar with this material please tell me if it’s compatible with Catholic theology. My inter-library loan book on Maximus Confessor isn’t in yet and I need this question answered.

Maximus Confessor said humans have two wills, natural will (as before the fall, aligned with good) and gnomic or deliberative will (which wanders). This explains the tension between pursuing what we want (yelling at someone I’m angry with, for example) and pursuing what we want (holiness). St. Paul wonders why he does what he hates instead of doing what he wants. So our task is to line up our gnomic/deliberative will with our natural will. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomic_will)

I got really excited about this until I saw that, according to wikipedia, it’s an Orthodox theology. irk. Does it hold water for Eastern Catholics?

The newadvent article on Maximus Confessor contains a discussion of will, but it’s mostly about the will of Jesus, not normal people’s wills.
 
I do not know Catholic teaching, I’m sorry. I just wanted to share my perspective. Inside me are several personalities and voices. How I come to understand that is that it’s from the disunity due to being a fallen creature. When I feel grace, I return or come into communion with God which forces all my parts to come into union with each other that is willing to accept God.
 
Since Byzantine Catholic theology is nearly identical to Eastern Orthodox theology, then yes this holds water with Eastern (more specifically Byzantine ) Catholics.

I am not aware of any contradiction this may have with Latin theology. Maximos the Confessor is a revered church father in both the Latin and Greek traditions.
 
\Maximus Confessor said humans have two wills, natural will (as before the fall, aligned with good) and gnomic or deliberative will (which wanders).\

I will simply say that this is in accord with Eastern Christian teaching, that sin is an undesirable add-on and not part of our original ontology as God made us, contrasted with the pop-evangelical notion of "sin nature."
 
I have just picked up a book on St. Maximus the Confessor, after our curate spoke to me about his work on him during his studies in Rome.

This sort of teaching is also part of St. Thomas Aquinas work. The natural will that wishes to attain the Good, to procreate, to preserve your life and some others; and the deliberate will that we choose ourselves day by day.
 
I have had a wee look at the Summa Theologica but cant find it exactly. It was mentioned in a short series on St Thomas on EWTN and I have read it in the S.T. before.

Can anyone help with this?
 
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