This article is devoted to the reception Maximus the Confessor’s ideas in Byzantine and Western Christian tradition. The author insists on the long time rehabilitation of his ideas, condemned for heresy by Monothelites, that lasted more than several centuries. The system of philosophical and theological thought proposed by Maxim became highly required in iconoclasm disputes and in the subsequent debate in the times of Comnenus and Palaeologuse. In the West, the main of his followers became John Scotus Erigena, but through his conviction in the XIII century, inherited from the Eastern Christian thinkers, include Maximus’s, ideas were shaken.