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Gregory Palamas and the Making of Palamism in the Modern Age (Hardcover)
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Gregory Palamas and the Making of Palamism in the Modern Age (Hardcover)
Series: Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology
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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'.
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