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Becoming uncreated: The journey to human authenticity : updating the spiritual christology of Gregory Palamas
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February 17, 2024
VERDICT: Palamas’ Christology isn’t abstract but deeply personal, offering a path to authentic humanness through deification, just as relevant today as in the 14th century.
We sometimes hear that the teaching of the Fathers of the Church is too abstract and not relevant to our 21st century daily life as Christians.
Even though Gregory Palamas died in 1357, rather late for the Fathers important in Orthodoxy, his works are mostly unknown from most English speaking lay people.
The fact that his major work, the Triads, is only now finally being accessible in English in its entirety certainly didn’t help. I was fortunate to grow up in France, and had easy access to Meyendorff’s bilingual Greek-French edition published back in 1959!
Thanks to Christopher Veniamin, Gregory’s Homilies have been available since 2002 in an excellent edition, and in smaller volumes more accessible to all wallets. Still, I don’t know many Orthodox parishioners who have read this book.
Hence the importance of Father Daniel M. Rogich’s book Becoming Uncreated:
The Journey to Human Authenticity and his worthy intention of “Updating the Spiritual Christology of Gregory Palamas”, to make it more relevant to our time.
My full review, or rather thoughts sharing, is here:
https://myrtleskete.com/2024/02/17/bo...
We sometimes hear that the teaching of the Fathers of the Church is too abstract and not relevant to our 21st century daily life as Christians.
Even though Gregory Palamas died in 1357, rather late for the Fathers important in Orthodoxy, his works are mostly unknown from most English speaking lay people.
The fact that his major work, the Triads, is only now finally being accessible in English in its entirety certainly didn’t help. I was fortunate to grow up in France, and had easy access to Meyendorff’s bilingual Greek-French edition published back in 1959!
Thanks to Christopher Veniamin, Gregory’s Homilies have been available since 2002 in an excellent edition, and in smaller volumes more accessible to all wallets. Still, I don’t know many Orthodox parishioners who have read this book.
Hence the importance of Father Daniel M. Rogich’s book Becoming Uncreated:
The Journey to Human Authenticity and his worthy intention of “Updating the Spiritual Christology of Gregory Palamas”, to make it more relevant to our time.
My full review, or rather thoughts sharing, is here:
https://myrtleskete.com/2024/02/17/bo...
August 25, 2013
Just wild and crazy what this book gets into. The reader will find the connection between the spiritual and physical dimensions a very real experience for the Christian. St Gregory Palamas has a sunday during lent dedicated to his memory for good reason.
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