Triune God : incomprehensible but knowable : the philosophical and theological significance of St Gregory Palamas for contemporary philosophy and theology /

Triune God : incomprehensible but knowable : the philosophical and theological significance of St Gregory Palamas for contemporary philosophy and theology /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Gregory Palamas, -- Saint, -- 1296-1359.
Gregory Palamas, -- Saint, -- 1296-1359.
Philosophy and religion.
Christianity -- Philosophy.
Christianity -- Philosophy.
Philosophy and religion.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588730
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Other authors / contributors:Athanasopoulos, Constantinos, editor.
ISBN:1443887935
9781443887939
1443880558
Notes:Twenty-three essays originally presented at the International conference on the philosophy and theology of St Gregory Palamas in Thessaloniki, Veroia and Holy Mt Athos, in March 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:The 13th and 14th centuries represented the most productive and influential period in the history of philosophy and theology in the West. A parallel and less influential (for the West) proliferation of arguments and theories took place in the East, at the same time, as a result of the defence of the Hesychastic movement offered by St Gregory Palamas and his followers. The papers brought together in this volume discuss the importance of Palamite ideas for the understanding of God in terms of divine energies, and for contemporary approaches to solving perennial problems in science, metaphysics,
Other form:Print version: Athanasopoulos, Constantinos. Triune God : Incomprehensible but Knowable-The Philosophical and Theological Significance of St Gregory Palamas for Contemporary Philosophy and Theology. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2015
Table of Contents:
  • Repentance according to Saint Gregory Palamas
  • Theologizing in Saint Gregory Palamas
  • The indisputable wisdom of the Holy Spirit
  • Simplicity of God according to St Gregory Palamas
  • St Gregory Palamas and Elder Sophronios of Essex
  • The theological presuppositions of the filioque in the work of St Gregory Palamas
  • Patristic evidence concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit in Gregory Palamas
  • Euchrist and ascesis: the eucharistic and therapeutic ecclesiology in the theology of St Gregory Palamas
  • Silence in the land of Logos
  • St Gregory Palamas and the Moscow school of Christian Neo-Platonism
  • St Gregory Palamas in Russian thought: spiritual practice versus rationality
  • St Gregory Palamas' critique of nominalism
  • St Gregory Palamas and Aristotle's Categories
  • The Theotokos as a mystical theologian
  • The open history and its enemies: unity of God and concept of history in Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas
  • Man's position in cosmos according to Dionysius the Areopagite and Gregory Palamas
  • The Christological context of Palamas' approach to participation in God
  • Aquinas and Palamas
  • Saint Gregory Palamas: a non-philosophical philosopher
  • The problem of deification
  • Becoming Homotheos: St Gregory Palamas' eschatology of body
  • Gregorius Palamas' theology, as viewed by the scholar Demetrios Cydones
  • "'EK" and "diá" in Apodictic Treatises on the Procession of the Holy Spirit" of Gregory Palamas
  • Taboric light in Russian visual culture: from the frescoes of Dionisy to the photographies of Yuri Holdin
  • Nudity of the body in the late medieval Orthodox tradition: one example
  • The relationship of the theology of uncreated light in St Gregory Palamas and the Byzantine iconography of 14th-16th century.

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