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Gregory Palamas and Dionysius

2022
Abstract This essay presents the Byzantine thinker St Gregory Palamas, who was influenced by Dionysian writings in formulating his own theology. The essay investigates the influence of Dionysius on Palamas and compares aspects of both thinkers with relevant doctrines in pagan Neoplatonism.
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Pseudo-Dionysius and Gregory Palamas

2022
The study shows the reception of the views of Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite by Gregory Palamas. The author presents the doctrinal context of Palamas' dispute with Barlaam from Calabria on the possibility of knowing God, the most important issue in 14th-century Byzantium. The author distances herself from many previous interpretations of this problem. She
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St. Gregory Palamas

Scottish Journal of Theology, 1968
Six centuries ago, in 1368, a man who had been dead only nine years was canonised by the orthodox church and raised to the dignity of Athanasius, the Cappadocian Fathers, and of Cyril as a defender of orthodoxy. The sexcentenary of his death, 1959, saw the publication of three volumes—the first being one of the ‘Mâitres Spirituels’ series, the second ...
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Gregory Palamas

1983
Gregory Palamas (1296–1359)—monk, archbishop and theologian—was a major figure in fourteenth-century Orthodox Byzantium. This, his greatest work, presents a defense in support of the monastic groups known as the 'hesychasts,' the originators of the Jesus Prayer.
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St. Gregory Palamas on the Divine Simplicity

Modern Theology, 2019
AbstractPlested focuses on the doctrine of divine simplicity according to Gregory Palamas (1296‐1357/9). He is well aware of the long tradition in the West of considering Palamas's distinction between the divine essence and the energies to do harm to the reality of divine simplicity—even if many recent books on divine simplicity ignore Palamas. Plested
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St. Gregory Palamas and Palamism

Abstract Gregory Palamas (1296–1357) is arguably among the most thoroughgoing theologians of deification in Christian history. This chapter provides an overview of the main contours of his thought on deification, together with its context in the Hesychast Controversy of the fourteenth century. It was chiefly through defending the life of
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The anthropology of St Gregory Palamas

Η παρούσα διατριβή μελετά την ανθρωπολογία του αγίου Γρηγορίου Παλαμά και προσπαθεί να αποδείξει δύο βασικά σημεία: α) ο άνθρωπος είναι, σύμφωνα με τον Παλαμά, ανώτερος από τους αγγέλους, όσον αφορά το κατ’ εικόνα Θεού. Επιπλέον, αυτό οφείλεται στην ανθρώπινη σωματικότητα, στο ανθρώπινο σώμα· β) ο άνθρωπος έχει τη δυνατότητα να «αισθάνεται» τον Θεό· σ’
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GREGORY PALAMAS (1296–1360) ON ISLAM

The Muslim World, 1983
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