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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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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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The uncreated energies – the spiritual foundation of knowledge
By the Orthodox teaching’s point of view on the uncreated energies, the science has the possibility to be spiritually substantiated. As far back as the patristic epoch, the theology speaks of the inward rationality of creation backed up by the uncreated energies, by which the world can be gathered in man and lifted to the highest level of its existence,
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In this paper, icons are understood as holy images in a broad sense, including murals, mosaics and miniatures. An icon is considered as a channel of communication with the sacred reality revealing itself through the icon.
Sergey Morgachev / Сергей Васильевич Моргачёв
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Experiencing living in God through uncreated divine energy
The transcendence of God requires that human spirituality seeks to experience it, through accessible, intelligible means, but constantly aware of the fact that the inexpressible cannot be expressed. The correct relation of the human to the divine transcendence is the foundation of what we call apophatic theology, the theology that defines God as being ...
George Daniel Petrov +1 more
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Triune Agency, East and West: Uncreated Energies or Created Effects? [PDF]
Abstract The present paper situates the Western and Eastern models of divine agency within their respective ontological frameworks. I show how the Western conception of divine agency as the production of ‘created effects’ is rooted in a particular understanding of the relationship between transcendence and immanence, but also in a ...
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Introduction. This work is intended to examine the use and interpretation of Byzantine hymnographic texts of Hieroschemamonk Anthony (Bulatovich), who was the leader of the Athonite Onomatodoxists during the 1910s, written during his defence of the ...
Tatyana A. Senina (nun Kassia)
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The Relationship Between the Sociology of Christian Religion and the Metaphysics of Morality [PDF]
The objective reality of the moral Christian act is composed of four structural elements of social organization: 1. the individual human subject; 2. its manifestation as a concrete act; 3. the moral rules of the Scripture and 4.
MIHAI C. TEODORESCU
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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 Nikephoros Gregoras, to identify significant contradictions regarding different understanding these authors of the ...
D. V. Vorobev
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One of the issues debated by St. Gregory Palamas in the sentential treatise Capita 150 is the practical problem of the genealogy of virtue, which he approaches in an eminently epistemological context. Palamas distinguishes between two modes of knowledge
Picu Ocoleanu
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