The Homilies of Saint Gregory Palamas: Volume 2

by Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin (Editor)

302 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Saint Gregory Palamas (1296-1359) was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece and later the Archbishop of Thessalonica known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm. He is venerated as a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Though he is not widely venerated in the Roman Catholic Church he is recognised as a saint. The second Sunday of the Great Lent is called the Sunday of Gregory Palamas in those Churches that commemorate him according to the Byzantine Rite. Some of his writings are collected in the Philokalia, a highly regarded book in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Palamas is perhaps most well-known for his central role in the defense of the doctrine of Hesychasm, which was upheld in 1351 at the Council of Blachernae.

Reviews

[Joshua Finch]

What a blessing. St Gregory helps show the spiritual, not earthly light, and is a great friend of our adversary the conscience, arousing us to action, and making our lack of piety look highly irrational.