Activity and Participation in Late Antiquity and Early Christian Thought. By Torstein Theodor Tollefsen
The so-called ‘Palamite Controversy’—one of the most significant, but also the most cerebral, theological divisions between Christians East and West—began in the fourteenth century, when Gregory Palamas took up the defence of Athonite monks practising a particular form of prayer and meditation known...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 283-287 |
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| Summary: | The so-called ‘Palamite Controversy’—one of the most significant, but also the most cerebral, theological divisions between Christians East and West—began in the fourteenth century, when Gregory Palamas took up the defence of Athonite monks practising a particular form of prayer and meditation known as ‘Hesychasm’. In order to defend against the criticisms of Barlaam of Calabria the monks’ claims to experience the ‘uncreated light of God’ while admitting (with Barlaam) that God is essentially unknowable and, therefore, essentially beyond the human sensory or intellectual grasp, Gregory deployed a now-famous distinction between God’s ‘essence’ (ousia) and ‘activities’ or, as they are commonly called in the East, ‘energies’ (energeiai). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt010 |