Patristic Reception and the Light of the Transfiguration in the Hesychast Controversy

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2024

Publisher

Brill

Source Publication

Role of Gregory Akindynos in the Hesychast Controversy, The

Source ISSN

9783657794522

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.30965/9783657794522_005

Abstract

Gregory Akindynos (died ca. 1348) was one of the main protagonists in the Byzantine Hesychast Controversy. A fellow student and friend of Gregory Palamas, he became the main opponent of the Palamite teaching about the divine energies in the course of 1341. The essays collected in this volume examine the role Akindynos played as a former friend and later adversary of Palamas, as an ecclesiastical authority at the court of Constantinople, as an author and a theological opponent of the doctrine of the uncreated energies of God. The collected papers address these issues from philological, historical, philosophical, and theological perspectives and contribute to a better understanding of Akindynos and his role in the history of the Hesychast Controversy.

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"Patristic Reception and the Light of the Transfiguration in the Hesychast Controversy," in The Role of Gregory Akindynos in the Hesychast Controversy. Eds. Renate Burri and Katharina Heyden. Leiden: Brill, 2024: 69-84. DOI.

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