Gregory Palamas and the making of Palamism in the modern age /

Gregory Palamas and the making of Palamism in the modern age /

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Author / Creator:	Russell, Norman, 1945- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Description:	xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology.
Subject:	Gregory Palamas, -- Saint, -- 1296-1359.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11876693

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ISBN:	9780199644643 0199644640
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	The fourteenth-century Greek hesychast and controversialist, Gregory Palamas, has been so successfully cast as 'the other' in Western theological discourse that it can be difficult to gain a sympathetic hearing for him. In the first part of this book, Norman Russell traces the historical reception of Palamite thought in Orthodoxy and in the West, and investigates how 'Palamism' was constructed in the early twentieth century by both Western and Eastern theologians (principally Martin Jugie and John Meyendorff) for polemical or apologetic purposes. Russell argues that we need to go behind these ideological constructions in order to gain a true perception of the teaching of Gregory Palamas. In his recent survey of Palamite scholarship, Robert Sinkewicz noted that it is now time to raise the larger questions. The second part of the book attempts to do this, following the contours of Palamas' thinking in three areas: his relationship to tradition, his philosophy, and his theology. Russell shows that Palamite thought, when freed of misunderstanding and misrepresentation, has the potential to enrich our understanding of divine-human communion. This study contributes to the changing paradigm of scholarship on Palamas, nudging it towards the point at which Palamite thought can be used fruitfully by contemporary Western and Eastern theologians without the need to subscribe to what has been regarded as 'Palamism'.
Other form:	Electronic version: Russell, Norman, 1945- Gregory Palamas and the making of palamism in the modern age. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019 9780191667497

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