Hesychasm - Apophatic Theology, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Prayer Rope, Jesus Prayer, Theophan the Recluse, John Climacus, Gregory Palamas (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 102. Chapters: Apophatic theology, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Prayer rope, Jesus Prayer, Theophan the Recluse, John Climacus, Gregory Palamas, Nicephorus Gregoras, Palamism, Christian monasticism, Hesychast controversy, Essence-Energies distinction, Christian mysticism, Symeon the New Theologian, John Cassian, Desert Fathers, Tabor Light, Philokalia, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, Religious habit, Degrees of Eastern Orthodox monasticism, Vladimir Lossky, Agni Parthene, Seraphim of Sarov, Evagrius Ponticus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Anchorite, Apophthegmata Patrum, Saint Ambrose of Optina, Diadochos of Photiki, Starets, The Way of a Pilgrim, World, Poustinia, Niketas Stethatos, Zosimas of Palestine, Prayer of Quiet, Cataphatic theology, Paisius Velichkovsky, Macarius of Corinth, Gregory of Sinai, Daniil Sihastrul, Theodosius of Tarnovo, Dionisiy Divniy, Maximos Kausokalybites, Barlaamism. Excerpt: Palamism or the Palamite theology is the theological synthesis of Gregory Palamas who, in order to maintain that humans can become like God through deification without compromising God's transcendence, distinguished between God's inaccessible essence and the energies through which he becomes known and enables to share his divine life. The central idea of the Palamite theology is a distinction between the divine essence and the divine energies that is not a merely conceptual distinction. Palamism is a central element of Eastern Orthodox theology, being made into dogma in the Eastern Orthodox Church by the Hesychast councils. Palamism has been described as representing "the deepest assimilation of the monastic and dogmatic traditions, combined with a repudiation of the philosophical notion of the exterior wisdom." Historically, Western Christianity has tended to reject Palamism, especially the Essence-Energies distincti...