A Commentary on One of Gregory Palamas’ “Chapters” Preserved in Antipalamite Sources [PDF]
This article analyzes a chapter contained in a collection of antipalamite extracts taken from the works of St Gregory of Palamas, which after being read at the Council of 1351 caused such agitation that the controversy around the Palamite and his ...
Alexey Dunayev
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Introduction. The purpose of this article is to carry out a critical analysis of the doctrine of St. Gregory Palamas and the doctrine of Grigory Akindin, to identify significant contradictions regarding different understanding these authors of the ...
D. V. Vorobev
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Breathing Divine Breath: on the Greco-Egyptian Sources of Hesychasm [PDF]
The genesis of Hesychasm is still quite unresolved. In this article, the assumption that its origins lie in late Greco-Egyptian Antiquity, in the eastern Mediterranean, and that Yoga contributed to it, remain in the background.
Ullrich Kleinhempel
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Knowledge of God in St Gregory Palamas
The topic of knowledge of God is one of the most important questions discussed by St Gregory Palamas in the majority of his works. Palamas distinguishes four basic types of knowledge of God: knowledge
Wojciech Micał
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“It is exactly the same to know God and to be a seer of God”: Barlaam the Calabrian on the method in theology [PDF]
This article examines the views of Barlaam the Calabrian on the methodology of theology and draws on his theological texts, namely the three consequent versions of the “Treatise against the Latins”, correspondence with St.
Elga Kanaeva
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Is there an Orthodox anthropology? [PDF]
The critical article states and briefly analyses the main problems related to Orthodox anthropology (a small section is devoted to particular points of anthropology in Eastern religions).
Dunaev Alexey
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Attitude to the legacy of Thomas Aquinas in byzantine theology during the initial period of hesychastic discussions [PDF]
This article studies the fi rst episode in the encounter of Eastern theologians with theology of Thomas Aquinas (as it was presented by papal legates) which took place in the 1330s. It shows that of the two Orthodox authors, Barlaam and St.
Elga Kanaeva
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THE DOCTRINES OF MATTER IN LEONTIUS OF BYZANTIUM, THEOPHANES OF NICAEA, AND IN THE MIDDLE BYZANTINE PERIOD: THE PROBLEM OF INFLUENCES [PDF]
In the present article a case is made that Theophanes of Nicaea’s both early and later doctrine on matter, as well as his soteriology, was liable to Aristotelian and Leontian influences.
Dmitry I. Makarov
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Reception by P. A. Florensky of V. S. Soloviev’s heritage: from philosophy to teology of pan-unity [PDF]
The article deals with the fi rst stage of the philosophical and theological work of priest Pavel Florensky. At this stage, Florensky turns to the heritage of V.S. Solovyov and makes an attempt to give a theological interpretation of his main concepts, i.
Nikolai Pavliuchenkov
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Personalism in the theological anthropology of E. Brunner and in the sophiology of revd. Sergei Bulgakov [PDF]
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the personalist interpretation of the Christian kerygma in the dialectical theology of Protestantism (by E. Brunner) and in the Orthodox sophiological theology of the late S. Bulgakov.
Maxim Pylaev
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