Among the religious philosophers and theologians of Russian Abroad, a special place belongs to archimandrite Cyprian (Kern), a pathologist, liturgist, ascetic, a wonderful church memoirist and researcher of the theological heritage of St. Gregory Palamas.
Andriy Martynyuk +1 more
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St. Gregory Palamas, Divine energies, uncreated light, Tabor light, Palamism, mystical experience, vision of God (theophany), knowledge of God, deification, palamite vs. hesychast controversy [PDF]
This article examines one of the least studied aspects of the theological and philosophical thought of St. Gregory Palamas, viz. his doctrine of the Divine selfcontemplation.
Vadim Elimanov
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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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Orthodoxy and Islam. St. Cyril and St. Gregory Palamas in Dialogue with Muslims [PDF]
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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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Concerns about Lycan's commonsensism
Abstract Despite wholeheartedly endorsing Lycan's commonsensism on display in On Evidence in Philosophy, this paper raises concerns about three views Lycan defends in that book. The first view is compatibilism about free will and determinism.
Michael Bergmann
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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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CAN SINNERS REALLY CHANGE? UNDERSTANDING PERSONAL SALVATION IN THE BLOCK UNIVERSE
Abstract This article brings time and theology together constructively in response to a pressing problem for the doctrine of personal salvation. The problem arises within the physics and metaphysics of time, as these support a so‐called temporal B‐theory in which time does not pass and reality is comprised of a block universe.
Emily Qureshi‐Hurst
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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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