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Essence and energies : being and naming God in St. Gregory Palamas / Tikhon Pino.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge research in Byzantine studiesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group, 2023Description: xiii, 218 pagine ; 24 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9781032244792
  • 9781032244808
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 281.9 23/eng/20220708
LOC classification:
  • BX395.P3 P56 2023
Other classification:
  • BQ 1931.P56 2023
Contents:
The interpretation of the essence-energies distinction and the complete writings of St. Gregory Palamas -- Understanding the language of essence and energies -- Activities that begin and end? Energies as the actuality and actualization of God -- Distinguishing essence and energies -- Divine simplicity and the unity of essence and energies -- Unity and distinction : the Trinitarian dimensions of essence and energies.
Summary: "St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year period. Essence and Energies is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in Byzantine theology in the fourteenth century".

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The interpretation of the essence-energies distinction and the complete writings of St. Gregory Palamas -- Understanding the language of essence and energies -- Activities that begin and end? Energies as the actuality and actualization of God -- Distinguishing essence and energies -- Divine simplicity and the unity of essence and energies -- Unity and distinction : the Trinitarian dimensions of essence and energies.

"St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year period. Essence and Energies is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in Byzantine theology in the fourteenth century".