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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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Gregory Palamas and Our Knowledge of God [PDF]
Studia Humana, 2012 Abstract Although Gregory wrote very little about this. he acknowledged that natural reason can lead us from the orderliness of the physical world to the existence of God; in this, he followed the tradition of Athanasius and other Greek fathers. Unlike Aquinas, he did not seek to present the argument a; deductive: in fact his argument
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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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St. Gregory Palamas on the Divine Simplicity
Modern Theology, 2019AbstractPlested 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
Marcus Plested
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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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Gregory Palamas and the Hesychast Tradition
Abstract The fourteenth-century Hesychast Controversy in Byzantium involved significant discussion of the nature of apophatic theology. This chapter explores the views on the matter developed by Gregory Palamas who championed the cause of the heyschast monks.openaire +1 more source
The Legacy of St Gregory Palamas
The theology of St Gregory Palamas (1296-1357) cast a long shadow in late Byzantium, influencing the religious culture and literary production of the greatest writers from the middle Palaiologan period to the fall of Constantinople and beyond. As a major theological polemic that unfolded over more than a decade (from 1338 to 1351), the Palamite ...openaire +1 more source