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Gregory Palamas (Greek: Γρηγόριος Παλαμᾶς; c. 1296 – 1359) was a Byzantine Greek theologian and Eastern Orthodox cleric of the late Byzantine period.
Saint Gregory Palamas, Orthodox monk, theologian, and intellectual leader of Hesychasm, an ascetical method of mystical prayer that integrates repetitive prayer formulas with bodily postures and controlled breathing.
May 14, 2020 · Our father among the saints Gregory Palamas (1296-1359), Archbishop of Thessalonica, was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece (at Vatopedi Monastery and Esphigmenou Monastery ), and later became Archbishop of Thessalonica. He was a preeminent theologian and a proponent of hesychastic theology.
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, aesthetics, and ethics.
- Triss Ingels
The impact of Gregory Palamas’ thirteenth-century predecessors upon the doctrine of essence and energies in God is analyzed, special attention being given to the increasing role of the notion of interpenetration in Moschambar, Blemmydes, Gregory of Cyprus.
Mar 16, 2014 · Learn about the life, prayer, and hesychasm of St. Gregory Palamas, a 14th-century monk and theologian who defended the Orthodox faith against the Western invasion. Discover how he experienced the divine light of God through the Jesus Prayer and became a light for the world.
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Palamas then describes the main difference between (scientific) natural knowledge (physike gnosis) and spiritual knowledge. Natural knowledge is acquired through the perception of the Five Senses, which create impressions, which in turn are used by imagination, storing the impressions into memory.
