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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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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
2022The 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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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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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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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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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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Gregory Palamas and the Making of Palamism in the Modern Age
International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2019Abstract ‘Palamism’ is not a neutral term. It was devised in the early twentieth century by a Roman Catholic scholar, Martin Jugie, to indicate a system of thought developed in the fourteenth century by Gregory Palamas and validated by several Orthodox Church councils that Jugie considered erroneous and therefore indicative of the ...
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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’openaire +1 more source
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 ofopenaire +1 more source