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Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas (Hardcover)
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Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies
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St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1357) is among the most well-known
and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a
comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across
his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year
period. An Athonite monk, abbot, and later Metropolitan of
Thessalonica, Gregory is remembered especially for his distinction
between God's essence and energies, and his celebrated doctrine
still generates a great deal of debate. What does Palamas actually
mean by the term energies? Are they 'activities' that God performs,
and if so, how can they be eternal and uncreated? Indeed, how could
God be simple if he possesses energies distinct from his essence?
Going beyond the Triads and the One Hundred and Fifty Chapters,
this book explores Palamas's answers to these long-standing
questions by analyzing all of the treatises produced by Palamas
between the years 1338 and 1357. It seeks to understand what
Palamas means when he speaks of God's energies, how he seeks to
prove that they are distinct from the divine essence, and how he
explains that this distinction in no way violates the unity and
simplicity of the one God in Trinity. Essence and Energies is a
useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and
scholars interested in Byzantine theology in the fourteenth
century.
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