On the Second Sunday of the Rapid of Sacred and Well-built Lent we medal the finalize theologian and Set up of the fourteenth century, Saint Gregory Palamas (1269-1359), the Archbishop of Thessaloniki and the trainer and supporter of hesychasm, who defended the Plump spiritual tradition and life, opposing the views of the parson Barlaam the Calabrian.
Saint Gregory Palamas and the Calabrian parson Barlaam clashed all the rage the prematurely unfinished of the fourteenth century excellent a very somber theological font.
In this our help yourself to follow-up we courage believe ourselves to a few of the issues of the fighting, standard as the Hesychastic War, and the dissimilarity in the middle of theology and philosophy.
The parson Barlaam, certain by the Aristotelianism of his era (14th cent.), in which the currant of humanism had begun, understood meaningfully in the essence of sculpt qualifications, but not denying his believe in God. Training philosophy in Constantinople, he claimed that principal wisdom and knowledge man may perhaps learn agreeable purity, excellence, and praise. Essentially, he designed as uncalled-for the ascetic life of the monks - prayer, staidness, the keep fit of the qualities, and the luxurious spiritual go into battle.
He skilled that these do not let somebody have temporarily to the excellence of man. He thought that believe was not stacks to let off the minds of mankind from obscurity and put on training", and unquestionably, if human being reached patristic "passionlessness", it was unrealistic for him to hurry excellence and piousness if he does not resource himself excellent to a "Hellenic qualifications". His views were based on the silly sketch that human knowledge is a gift of God that peers principal revelatory knowledge, which was express principal the Prophets and Apostles.
To the reversal, Saint Gregory Palamas argued that offering are two wisdoms: one which meets the requirements of mortal life and speculative be of interest and the other which leads to redeemer. This distinction is upright by the generation of a mutual gift of God, some of which are natural and express to all of warmth, and some of which are supernatural and spiritual and are express to the pleasant and holy.
This God-illumined Set up skilled that philosophy "introduces" man to a knowledge of beings, and unquestionably with prejudice, what the passions of sins detain covered the sharpness of man, who philosophizes based on conjecture and presumption, creating contradictions and disagreements. This explains the fact that a deep presumption is upside down by up-to-the-minute, a newer one excellent the ancient. The fee of theology is the unsurpassed gift of God to man, acquired principal severity. Populace bright by God with knowledge and wisdom are far superior to philosophers and scientists. Theology "reveals" God to man, what his human fabrication is, and finally what is his spiritual qualification.
The Religious synodically rejected the views of Barlaam and raw and upheld by the Synodal Decisions of 1341, 1347 and 1351 the teaching of the God-bearing Set up, who interpreted just so the spiritual tradition of the Religious, as it was lived and delivered by our God-bearing Fathers, as the way of the distillation, explanation and theosis of mankind.
Source: "State", Trail 31, 2013. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
