St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality

St Gregory Palamas, a fourteenth century Byzantine saint and Church Father, incorporated traditional Eastern monastic spirituality into a comprehensive theological vision. Includes discussion of hesychasm, the monastic movement centered on solitude and unceasing prayer.

Introduction

1

(4)

The Spiritual Tradition of the Monks of the East

5

(66)

Primitive Monasticism

5

(9)

Evagrius of Pontus ([xxx] 399) and Pure Prayer

14

(4)

Macarius and Mysticism of the Heart

18

(7)

The Prayer of Jesus

25

(10)

Doctrine of Deification: Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus

35

(9)

Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)

44

(8)

Byzantine Hesychasm up to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

52

(19)

Gregory Palamas Theologian of Hesychasm

71

(56)

Youth

71

(10)

The Controversy with Barlaam and Akindynus

81

(21)

The Theology of Hesychasm

102

(13)

A Christian Existentialism

115

(12)

Hesychasm After Palamas

127

(48)

In the Christian East from the Fourteenth Century to Today

127

(16)

The Hesychast Tradition in Russia

143

(25)

Conclsuion

168

(7)

Chronology

175

(4)

Notes on the Illustrations

179

(4)

Index

183

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St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality

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