St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality

by Meyendorff, John

• ISBN13: 9780913836118
• ISBN10: 0913836117
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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