...Gregory Palamas (1296–1357) is arguably among the most thoroughgoing theologians of deification in Christian history. This chapter provides an overview of the main contours of his thought on deification, together with its context in the Hesychast Controversy of the fourteenth century...

...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. Palamas is famous...

... Ecumenical Councils Negative or apophatic theology Positive or cataphatic theology Simplicity of God Transcendence of God Andrewes Lancelot Enlightenment Luther Martin Middle Ages deification Thomas Aquinas Gregory Palamas sanctification essence-energies distinction theology We turn now from...

.... This chapter argues that the new rulers based their relationship with local bishops on exploiting local ecclesiastical revenues, and that the bishops demonstrated practical self-preservation in adjusting to the new order, setting a pattern that would continue into the sixteenth century. Gregory Palamas...

...Human Perfection in Byzantine Theology: Attaining the Fullness of Christ. Alexis Torrance, Oxford University Press (2020). © Alexis Torrance. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845294.001.0001 Gregory Palamas’s defence of human perfection and deification through the dogmatic distinction...

...In Chapter Four, an analysis of the debate between Thomas Aquinas and Gregory Palamas on the nature of the visio dei secures the principle that without ongoing mediation, the union of God and the creature will be conceived along unacceptably monistic and/or dualistic lines. To avoid this reduction...

... that Palamas is no innovator, and that his doctrine may be philosophically sound. Focus is on the distinction between essence and activity in God, and on participation in divine activity, especially in context of the doctrine of deification. Gregory Palamas St ‘around it him God them’ participation...

... Gregory Palamas monastic formation One might say that Christianity rendered the souls of the living and those of the dead continuous in a new way, as if the living soul were in some sense already dead, while the dead soul, in that very same sense, were still alive. Robert Pogue Harrison...

... Gregory Palamas St Irenaeus of Lyons St Maximus the Confessor Orthodoxy Soloviev Vladimir unmodern unmodern turn Evlogy Metropolitan Florovsky Georges Holy Spirit the Lossky Vladimir revelation development doctrinal tradition Aquinas Thomas Christ the Lord etc St Clement of Alexandria...

... of liturgy continued to be resonant. The variety and depth of Dionysian influence is hard to underestimate, found in different ways, after Maximos, in John Damascene, Photios, Psellos, Symeon the New Theologian and his biographer Nikitas Stithatos, and Gregory Palamas and his predecessors. Maximos himself...

...This chapter deals with Gregory Palamas' reception of the Latin West. Taking his evident use of Augustine as a starting point, it argues for the existence of an Orthodox interpretation of procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son in Gregory — and not only in respect of temporal...

... of Orthodoxy — one in which Thomas might once again find a place. In its probing of the East–West dichotomy, this book also questions the widespread juxtaposition of Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas as archetypes of opposing Greek and Latin theological traditions. Indeed, Palamas' own Byzantine scholastic...

... Geneva agreement 1970 Kant Immanuel Rahner Karl deification Gregory Palamas theosis essence-energies distinction T he purpose of gathering the variegated strands of Palamas' doctrine of deification and grouping them into two main themes is not simply to summarize the complex. Rather, identifying...

.... It also considers the Trinity doctrine of Patriarch Gennadios II and Gregory Palamas, whose approach was similar to that of Augustine except with regards to the Filioque and the divine energies. Beck Hans Georg Byzantine theology Constantinople 1st ecumenical council of 381 Dionysius...

... the concept of theosis (or deification) that is central to Orthodox thinking about the human person and his/her destiny. Nicene–Constantinopolitan Creed Essence–Energy Distinction Palamas Gregory Trinity Filioque Theosis Jesus Christ Grace filioque St Gregory Palamas Nicene Creed Orthodox...

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... doctrine creation deification grace Gregory Palamas participation systematic theology theosis Christian theology is frequently shot through with the language of participation, as a description of relation, derivation, and likeness, donation and communion. Notions of participation underlie...

... Abhisamayālaṅkāra The Ornament of Realization Logoi essence and energies distinction Palamas St Gregory Bhagavad Gītā brahman Buddha bodies dharma Evagrios Pontikos Kṛṣṇa Maximus the Confessor nirvāna Gregory Palamas Tibetan Buddhism One of the most significant theological developments...

.... This was especially true following the gathering at Lyons in 1274, when three distinct “schools” of thought emerged in Byzantium. Most fascinating is the third (exemplified by Gregory of Cyprus and Gregory Palamas), which appeared to offer the best hope of resolving the crisis—speaking of the Spirit’s eternal...

...There is a distinction to be conceived between God's essence and his activity (energeia). This distinction is discussed with a view to Gregory Palamas and earlier theological developments. Maximus has an interesting philosophy of divine activity, an activity that is distributed...