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One of my favourite stories from "Terrifyingly Extremity TO THE Dictum", about Moseley's "responsibility" as a narrator on UFOs back in the 1960s and to the fore 1970s:"On one gamble, I arrived where in the Bible Crowd to speak at a petty fundamentalist sanctimonious school. I flew in at night in a shower. The college civilization picked me up at the fatal, and the same as we arrived on academia, for some symposium we had to travel over a few yards of very bewilder tackle. It was bug, the rain was sluicing down, and I was in no time neighboring dejected. All of a well-defined, I stepped within a water-filled hole uncommon inches piquant. I couldn't help blurting out, 'Jesus Christ!' So, in an rash exercise to bargain the container with a bit of humour, I sang out, standing the Lord!'" (p. 198)In all probability I find this article so flimsy is while it reminds me of a more readily similar criticize from my aged - Genre 9, aide high to be point. One day fair-minded in the past the twelve noon sound, my oldest pal and I walked within the classroom that doubled as the lunch-room for folks of us who were bussed to school. We were a bit tardy, and the room was busy, which expected no place for us to sit. My friend's off-the-cuff, gut skin complaint was to say, in a put into words that was in all probability a bit louder than he had designed, "Lovely Cow!" Forlornly, the intellectual in charge of the lunch-room that day was Mr. Sharma, a self-righteous Hindu (he condition call been self-righteous, taking into consideration what followed). He heard my friend, and instantaneously came aristocratic, high-pitched. The long and the curt of it was that my friend dead up with putting away for mocking Mr. Sharma's religion. This was absurd, as we had no aura Mr. Sharma was in charge of the lunchroom that day, and my friend's to one side came as quickly as he saw the room, flaw having noticed Mr. Sharma. Regrettably for Mr. Sharma, my friend's parents didn't keep blather from self and were earlier put out by his actions. As I evoke, Mr. Sharma dead up apologizing to my friend.My friend and I are ease best pals, and we ease get a snicker the same as we evoke his credulous "Lovely Cow", and the happening.I in the neighborhood felt putrid for Mr. Sharma, who was not well liked by students.In close proximity.Paul Kimball
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By His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou
The work of Saint Gregory Palamas titled "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" is a concise text, which in the way it is written recalls works of other Fathers of the Church, such as Saint Maximus the Confessor, Saint Symeon the New Theologian and others, and is regarded as a summary of the teachings of the Saint previously developed in his dialogues with Barlaam and Akindynos. In similar cases all writers at one time, after a few years, attempt to make a succinct summary of the teachings they previously delivered. However, this work has recently created concern.
It has been suggested that Saint Gregory, in order to write the text, used the work of the sacred Augustine titled "De Trinitate", receiving certain expressions from it, such as Aristotelian categories for God, without mentioning his source, and he even accepted the Augustinian psychotheological triad "mens - notitia (or cognitio or scientia or verbum) - amor", that is, "mind - reason - love/eros". Indeed it was given in a particular passage.
Certainly, Saint Gregory Palamas did not know the Latin language, since he was monolingual. This, however, is not considered a particular problem, because the work "De Trinitate" of the sacred Augustine was translated into Greek before 1281 by Maximos Planoudes. In view of this a copy, even the oldest of this text, was preserved at Vatopaidi Monastery, where Palamas was found from the period of September 1347 and the first months of 1348, when he went to Mount Athos after the refusal of the Thessalonians to accept him as Metropolitan after his election.
When reading about this view regarding the relationship between the theology of Saint Gregory Palamas and the sacred Augustine, I felt deeply surprised, because I knew from my many years, over forty, of studying the teachings of Saint Gregory that he himself confronted Barlaam, who expressed the western traditions of scholastic theology and had been influenced by the views of the sacred Augustine. How is it possible, I wondered, for Saint Gregory Palamas to contradict Barlaam and, at the same time, to accept the opinions of the sacred Augustine, whose opinions, basically, supported Barlaam as a Neoplatonist and as a voice of western scholasticism?
But I don't think it's possible for something like this to have happened for the following reasons:
First, because the works of Augustine were largely unknown to the Orthodox Fathers of the Church until the thirteenth century "when a few written examples of his theological thought were translated".
Second, because Barlaam, who was refuted by Saint Gregory, expressed the western tradition as formulated by Augustine's views on many issues, such as that the revelation of the Triune God takes place through done and undone created symbols of the divinity, so that when God gives an immediate higher revelation through the intellect, He gives it by means of human sensations; that there is no difference between the divine essence and the uncreated energies; that divine Grace is a created thing that unites with the soul and directs the will of man from the changeable to the unchangeable God, in Whom man finds happiness with the satisfaction of his desires; that the Kingdom of God is created; and generally the views of Barlaam regarding revelation, Hell and the Kingdom were formed under the influence of Augustinian theology.
Third, Barlaam himself didn't understand the genuine patristic tradition, as expressed by the hesychast Fathers, because the Franko-Latins had subdued the entire patristic tradition beneath the predicates of Augustine - this is why Barlaam heard when he came to Thessaloniki for the first time different interpretations from what he recognized in Augustine and was surprised - but neither did "Palamas and his circle recognize the Augustinian origins of the cacodoxies of Barlaam". Moreover, the Greek-speaking Roman Fathers never took into consideration the works and thought of Augustine "which, moreover, have never been a basis for the Ecumenical Synods and the teachings of the Fathers".
Thus the view that Palamas used the text of the sacred Augustine "De Trinitate", through the translation of Maximos Planoudes, is difficult to accept, because I consider the most brilliant and most God-seeing Gregory Palamas, who had extraordinary intellectual gifts as well as personal experience of the Triune God, as we see in his biography written by his fellow monk the Patriarch Philotheos Kokkinos, if he had read this specific text of Augustine, he would have perceived its thoughtful infrastructure as a deviation from Orthodox Tradition. In other words, he who did a very detailed critique of Barlaam's serious doctrinal issues, if he had read the text of the sacred Augustine it would have been impossible to not know the relationship that existed between the sacred Augustine and Barlaam.
Certainly in his work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" he refers to and interprets the ten Aristotelian categories, namely - Substance, Quantity, Quality, Relation, Place, Time, Position, State, Action, Affection. It is even known that Saint Gregory Palamas knew from his studies in Constantinople Aristotelian philosophy, and no one would expect him to learn the Aristotelian categories of Aristotle from the related work of Augustine. From Saint Philotheos Kokkinos we know that Saint Gregory was a student of Aristotle. Indeed he writes concerning this issue that Gregory excelled in his study of grammar, rhetoric, physics, logic "and all the science of Aristotle" beyond all others, and that he was admired by his teachers for this. Furthermore, the chief officer and preeminent scholar Theodore Metochites, who interacted with Gregory before the Emperor regarding the writings on logic by Aristotle, was surprised by the analysis of Gregory and told the Emperor: "If Aristotle himself had been present to listen to this young man, he would, I believe, have praised him beyond measure. For the time being, I saw that it is those with such a soul and such nature as his who should be pursuing knowledge, and especially the omnifarious philosophical writings of Aristotle."
However there are two particular points that deserve special study:
One point is that in this work of Saint Gregory Palamas there is an excerpt from the "De Trinitate" of the sacred Augustine, namely "dispositions and states and places and times and suchlike things are not properly but only metaphorically to be ascribed to God...". I think upon inspection this can be seen as an interpolation, because it has little dependence on the text. The biggest argument which shows that Saint Gregory Palamas was not aware of this work of the sacred Augustine, by the translation of Maximos Planoudes, is that he would not agree to receive a few insignificant phrases from this work when we find out that a bit below this there are passages of the sacred Augustine that support the Filioque.
This passage is specifically found in the fifth book of the "De Trinitate" of the sacred Augustine. But I consider it unlikely, if not impossible, that Saint Gregory Palamas read this work and not realized that the thought of the sacred Augustine is problematic from an Orthodox perspective. And this is because in the very next paragraph the sacred Augustine seems to not be able to make a distinction between essence and hypostasis, when he writes: "I say essence, which in Greek is called, and which we call more usually substance. They indeed use also the word hypostasis; but they intend to put a difference, I know not what, between and hypostasis: so that most of ourselves who treat these things in the Greek language, are accustomed to say,, or in Latin, one essence, three substances." Also, it is unlikely that Saint Gregory Palamas didn't realize that immediately after this the thought of Augustine concludes with the Filioque, when he writes that the Holy Spirit is a gift of the Father and the Son Who is given to people, and that "the Holy Spirit is the spirit of the Father and the Son". And of course here is not meant that the Holy Spirit proceeds only from Father or by the Father and through the Son sent in time, as taught by Saint Gregory Palamas. In this passage of the sacred Augustine things are reversed, since it says "the Father and Son are a beginning of the Holy Spirit, not two beginnings", in other words with respect to the Holy Spirit there is one beginning (Father and Son), and in respect to creation the Father and Son and Holy Spirit are one beginning. This means that while Saint Gregory Palamas distinguishes the pre-eternal procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father alone and sent in time through the Son also, the sacred Augustine speaks to the contrary of the procession of the Holy Spirit also from the Son, as well as the energy of the Triune God in creation. The heresy of the Filioque is also seen in other works of the sacred Augustine.
And the question is: Why did Saint Gregory Palamas accept from this work of Augustine a passage that does not really matter to his text and is not pardoned of the heresy of the Filioque that exists in the next few passages?
The other point is that there are some common conceptual similarities between the work of Saint Gregory Palamas and this specific work of the sacred Augustine, mainly related to the Augustinian psychological theory regarding the Holy Trinity, and in particular that the Holy Spirit is the love/eros between the Father and the Son, from which comes the heresy of the Filioque. And we consider this because this is an image used by Saint Gregory Palamas, but it results in the opposite conclusion as that of Augustine, and of course no one can be sure if Saint Gregory Palamas borrowed this from Augustine.
Consequently, there are three positions regarding the authorship of the work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters". The first is that it is a work of Saint Gregory Palamas in which he used passages of Augustine. I cannot accept this hypothesis. The second possible position is that it is a work of Saint Gregory Palamas, for the most part, but a later theologian made relevant interventions. The third position, which in my opinion is the most likely, is that the work titled "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" is not a work of Saint Gregory Palamas, but of a later writer.
One can locate such a hypothesis in what Professor Panagiotis Chrestou says, in that the "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" do not "consist of an accurate record of the overall theological and spiritual teachings of Gregory Palamas, as is usually maintained", and that the manuscript tradition is not rich. Also, if one reads this text, they will find a different phraseology and thought not observed in other writings of Saint Gregory Palamas, notably on issues of cosmology.
If this has a basis, then we are left with the view that the work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" was written by a later theologian who knew the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and the theology of the sacred Augustine and made a summary between the two, and he also knew the Latin language. Such a hypothesis can cleanse all that has been attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas, since in other writings he condemns with Orthodox arguments the heretical teachings regarding the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son. The question, however, becomes if such a hypothesis stands, then who might be the composer of such a work as the "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" who knew both the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and the views of the sacred Augustine, as well as the Latin language.
Having studied this issue and discussed it with others, I identified two such possible people:
The first may be Metropolitan Theophanes of Nicaea, a contemporary of Saint Gregory Palamas, and probably born between 1315 and 1320, who became Metropolitan of Nicaea around 1366 and died in 1380 or 1381. He had a personal relationship with Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, friend of Saint Gregory Palamas, and he took part in the conflict in favor of hesychasm. Gennadios Scholarios considered him the best apologist in Byzantium. Most of his works remain unpublished. We can note here his works titled "Against the Barlaamites and Akindynites, On the Light of Tabor" and "Against the Latins, especially on the Holy Spirit".
Spyros Lambrou, who compiled a list of the manuscripts of Mount Athos, attributed to Theophanes of Nicaea the authorship of the works attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas titled "Dialogue of an Orthodox with a Barlaamite that Uncovers the Barlaamite Delusion" and "The Orthodox Theophanes Dialogue with the Barlaamites who Returned to Honor God". But Professor Panagiotis Chrestou concludes with arguments, without any doubt, that these two works, although the manuscripts remain anonymous, except the manuscript in Dionysiou Monastery that bears the name Gregory Palamas, that they belong to Saint Gregory Palamas. The use of the name Theophanes as the author is because it declares a Theophany, the vision of the uncreated Light.
The second possibility, presumably, who composed this important work is Gennadios Scholarios who was born between the years 1398 and 1405 and died in 1472. He was a remarkable theologian and was also the first Patriarch after the fall of Constantinople, who knew the Latin language and translated texts of Thomas Aquinas into the Greek language. Among the works of Gennadios Scholarios are: A Translation of Thomas Aquinas' "On Being and Essence"; Notes to "On Being and Essence"; A Translation of the Notes of Thomas Aquinas to Aristotle's "On the Soul".
One can carefully study the works of Gennadios Scholarios to identify the internal evidence, that is, the phrases that may coincide with the work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters". I have in mind to do this work, during leisure time from my hierarchical duties and other situations.
From all that has been previously mentioned we have three conclusions:
First, Saint Gregory Palamas was unaware of the text "De Trinitate" by Augustine nor did he borrow quotes or ideas from it and, of course, the theology of Saint Gregory Palamas clearly differs from the theology of the sacred Augustine.
Second, the "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters", in the most likely scenario, is the work of a later author, who knew the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and Augustine and attempted this synthesis. He took entire passages from texts of Saint Gregory Palamas, he also used those of the sacred Augustine, and the entire work was attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas. Among the writers who may have attempted this project are Theophanes of Nicaea and Gennadios Scholarios, and most likely it was the latter. However, this needs further investigation.
Third, no one can deny the importance of this work, in its key points, as it expresses the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas, which are teachings of the Church, since they give entire texts of his. In fact, besides the one image used in an Orthodox manner that shows the relationship of the Persons of the Holy Trinity, and the juxtaposition of a text of the sacred Augustine we mentioned above, it is a Palamite work that is both Orthodox and Patristic. It shall not cease to have great value, since it offers texts and theological points of the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and expresses the dogmatic and hesychastic tradition of the Orthodox Church, which clearly differs from the teachings of the sacred Augustine.
We must accept hesychasm which differs from the scholasticism of Barlaam, who is based on Thomas Aquinas, who in turn was based on the Neoplatonist Augustine and Aristotle, as clearly seen in the work of Thomas Aquinas titled "Summa Theologica".
Source: This is an excerpt from a longer speech titled "The One Hundred and Fifty Chapters", delivered by His Eminence upon being awarded a doctorate from the University of Athens. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
The work of Saint Gregory Palamas titled "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" is a concise text, which in the way it is written recalls works of other Fathers of the Church, such as Saint Maximus the Confessor, Saint Symeon the New Theologian and others, and is regarded as a summary of the teachings of the Saint previously developed in his dialogues with Barlaam and Akindynos. In similar cases all writers at one time, after a few years, attempt to make a succinct summary of the teachings they previously delivered. However, this work has recently created concern.
It has been suggested that Saint Gregory, in order to write the text, used the work of the sacred Augustine titled "De Trinitate", receiving certain expressions from it, such as Aristotelian categories for God, without mentioning his source, and he even accepted the Augustinian psychotheological triad "mens - notitia (or cognitio or scientia or verbum) - amor", that is, "mind - reason - love/eros". Indeed it was given in a particular passage.
Certainly, Saint Gregory Palamas did not know the Latin language, since he was monolingual. This, however, is not considered a particular problem, because the work "De Trinitate" of the sacred Augustine was translated into Greek before 1281 by Maximos Planoudes. In view of this a copy, even the oldest of this text, was preserved at Vatopaidi Monastery, where Palamas was found from the period of September 1347 and the first months of 1348, when he went to Mount Athos after the refusal of the Thessalonians to accept him as Metropolitan after his election.
When reading about this view regarding the relationship between the theology of Saint Gregory Palamas and the sacred Augustine, I felt deeply surprised, because I knew from my many years, over forty, of studying the teachings of Saint Gregory that he himself confronted Barlaam, who expressed the western traditions of scholastic theology and had been influenced by the views of the sacred Augustine. How is it possible, I wondered, for Saint Gregory Palamas to contradict Barlaam and, at the same time, to accept the opinions of the sacred Augustine, whose opinions, basically, supported Barlaam as a Neoplatonist and as a voice of western scholasticism?
But I don't think it's possible for something like this to have happened for the following reasons:
First, because the works of Augustine were largely unknown to the Orthodox Fathers of the Church until the thirteenth century "when a few written examples of his theological thought were translated".
Second, because Barlaam, who was refuted by Saint Gregory, expressed the western tradition as formulated by Augustine's views on many issues, such as that the revelation of the Triune God takes place through done and undone created symbols of the divinity, so that when God gives an immediate higher revelation through the intellect, He gives it by means of human sensations; that there is no difference between the divine essence and the uncreated energies; that divine Grace is a created thing that unites with the soul and directs the will of man from the changeable to the unchangeable God, in Whom man finds happiness with the satisfaction of his desires; that the Kingdom of God is created; and generally the views of Barlaam regarding revelation, Hell and the Kingdom were formed under the influence of Augustinian theology.
Third, Barlaam himself didn't understand the genuine patristic tradition, as expressed by the hesychast Fathers, because the Franko-Latins had subdued the entire patristic tradition beneath the predicates of Augustine - this is why Barlaam heard when he came to Thessaloniki for the first time different interpretations from what he recognized in Augustine and was surprised - but neither did "Palamas and his circle recognize the Augustinian origins of the cacodoxies of Barlaam". Moreover, the Greek-speaking Roman Fathers never took into consideration the works and thought of Augustine "which, moreover, have never been a basis for the Ecumenical Synods and the teachings of the Fathers".
Thus the view that Palamas used the text of the sacred Augustine "De Trinitate", through the translation of Maximos Planoudes, is difficult to accept, because I consider the most brilliant and most God-seeing Gregory Palamas, who had extraordinary intellectual gifts as well as personal experience of the Triune God, as we see in his biography written by his fellow monk the Patriarch Philotheos Kokkinos, if he had read this specific text of Augustine, he would have perceived its thoughtful infrastructure as a deviation from Orthodox Tradition. In other words, he who did a very detailed critique of Barlaam's serious doctrinal issues, if he had read the text of the sacred Augustine it would have been impossible to not know the relationship that existed between the sacred Augustine and Barlaam.
Certainly in his work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" he refers to and interprets the ten Aristotelian categories, namely - Substance, Quantity, Quality, Relation, Place, Time, Position, State, Action, Affection. It is even known that Saint Gregory Palamas knew from his studies in Constantinople Aristotelian philosophy, and no one would expect him to learn the Aristotelian categories of Aristotle from the related work of Augustine. From Saint Philotheos Kokkinos we know that Saint Gregory was a student of Aristotle. Indeed he writes concerning this issue that Gregory excelled in his study of grammar, rhetoric, physics, logic "and all the science of Aristotle" beyond all others, and that he was admired by his teachers for this. Furthermore, the chief officer and preeminent scholar Theodore Metochites, who interacted with Gregory before the Emperor regarding the writings on logic by Aristotle, was surprised by the analysis of Gregory and told the Emperor: "If Aristotle himself had been present to listen to this young man, he would, I believe, have praised him beyond measure. For the time being, I saw that it is those with such a soul and such nature as his who should be pursuing knowledge, and especially the omnifarious philosophical writings of Aristotle."
However there are two particular points that deserve special study:
One point is that in this work of Saint Gregory Palamas there is an excerpt from the "De Trinitate" of the sacred Augustine, namely "dispositions and states and places and times and suchlike things are not properly but only metaphorically to be ascribed to God...". I think upon inspection this can be seen as an interpolation, because it has little dependence on the text. The biggest argument which shows that Saint Gregory Palamas was not aware of this work of the sacred Augustine, by the translation of Maximos Planoudes, is that he would not agree to receive a few insignificant phrases from this work when we find out that a bit below this there are passages of the sacred Augustine that support the Filioque.
This passage is specifically found in the fifth book of the "De Trinitate" of the sacred Augustine. But I consider it unlikely, if not impossible, that Saint Gregory Palamas read this work and not realized that the thought of the sacred Augustine is problematic from an Orthodox perspective. And this is because in the very next paragraph the sacred Augustine seems to not be able to make a distinction between essence and hypostasis, when he writes: "I say essence, which in Greek is called, and which we call more usually substance. They indeed use also the word hypostasis; but they intend to put a difference, I know not what, between and hypostasis: so that most of ourselves who treat these things in the Greek language, are accustomed to say,, or in Latin, one essence, three substances." Also, it is unlikely that Saint Gregory Palamas didn't realize that immediately after this the thought of Augustine concludes with the Filioque, when he writes that the Holy Spirit is a gift of the Father and the Son Who is given to people, and that "the Holy Spirit is the spirit of the Father and the Son". And of course here is not meant that the Holy Spirit proceeds only from Father or by the Father and through the Son sent in time, as taught by Saint Gregory Palamas. In this passage of the sacred Augustine things are reversed, since it says "the Father and Son are a beginning of the Holy Spirit, not two beginnings", in other words with respect to the Holy Spirit there is one beginning (Father and Son), and in respect to creation the Father and Son and Holy Spirit are one beginning. This means that while Saint Gregory Palamas distinguishes the pre-eternal procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father alone and sent in time through the Son also, the sacred Augustine speaks to the contrary of the procession of the Holy Spirit also from the Son, as well as the energy of the Triune God in creation. The heresy of the Filioque is also seen in other works of the sacred Augustine.
And the question is: Why did Saint Gregory Palamas accept from this work of Augustine a passage that does not really matter to his text and is not pardoned of the heresy of the Filioque that exists in the next few passages?
The other point is that there are some common conceptual similarities between the work of Saint Gregory Palamas and this specific work of the sacred Augustine, mainly related to the Augustinian psychological theory regarding the Holy Trinity, and in particular that the Holy Spirit is the love/eros between the Father and the Son, from which comes the heresy of the Filioque. And we consider this because this is an image used by Saint Gregory Palamas, but it results in the opposite conclusion as that of Augustine, and of course no one can be sure if Saint Gregory Palamas borrowed this from Augustine.
Consequently, there are three positions regarding the authorship of the work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters". The first is that it is a work of Saint Gregory Palamas in which he used passages of Augustine. I cannot accept this hypothesis. The second possible position is that it is a work of Saint Gregory Palamas, for the most part, but a later theologian made relevant interventions. The third position, which in my opinion is the most likely, is that the work titled "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" is not a work of Saint Gregory Palamas, but of a later writer.
One can locate such a hypothesis in what Professor Panagiotis Chrestou says, in that the "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" do not "consist of an accurate record of the overall theological and spiritual teachings of Gregory Palamas, as is usually maintained", and that the manuscript tradition is not rich. Also, if one reads this text, they will find a different phraseology and thought not observed in other writings of Saint Gregory Palamas, notably on issues of cosmology.
If this has a basis, then we are left with the view that the work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" was written by a later theologian who knew the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and the theology of the sacred Augustine and made a summary between the two, and he also knew the Latin language. Such a hypothesis can cleanse all that has been attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas, since in other writings he condemns with Orthodox arguments the heretical teachings regarding the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son. The question, however, becomes if such a hypothesis stands, then who might be the composer of such a work as the "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" who knew both the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and the views of the sacred Augustine, as well as the Latin language.
Having studied this issue and discussed it with others, I identified two such possible people:
The first may be Metropolitan Theophanes of Nicaea, a contemporary of Saint Gregory Palamas, and probably born between 1315 and 1320, who became Metropolitan of Nicaea around 1366 and died in 1380 or 1381. He had a personal relationship with Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, friend of Saint Gregory Palamas, and he took part in the conflict in favor of hesychasm. Gennadios Scholarios considered him the best apologist in Byzantium. Most of his works remain unpublished. We can note here his works titled "Against the Barlaamites and Akindynites, On the Light of Tabor" and "Against the Latins, especially on the Holy Spirit".
Spyros Lambrou, who compiled a list of the manuscripts of Mount Athos, attributed to Theophanes of Nicaea the authorship of the works attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas titled "Dialogue of an Orthodox with a Barlaamite that Uncovers the Barlaamite Delusion" and "The Orthodox Theophanes Dialogue with the Barlaamites who Returned to Honor God". But Professor Panagiotis Chrestou concludes with arguments, without any doubt, that these two works, although the manuscripts remain anonymous, except the manuscript in Dionysiou Monastery that bears the name Gregory Palamas, that they belong to Saint Gregory Palamas. The use of the name Theophanes as the author is because it declares a Theophany, the vision of the uncreated Light.
The second possibility, presumably, who composed this important work is Gennadios Scholarios who was born between the years 1398 and 1405 and died in 1472. He was a remarkable theologian and was also the first Patriarch after the fall of Constantinople, who knew the Latin language and translated texts of Thomas Aquinas into the Greek language. Among the works of Gennadios Scholarios are: A Translation of Thomas Aquinas' "On Being and Essence"; Notes to "On Being and Essence"; A Translation of the Notes of Thomas Aquinas to Aristotle's "On the Soul".
One can carefully study the works of Gennadios Scholarios to identify the internal evidence, that is, the phrases that may coincide with the work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters". I have in mind to do this work, during leisure time from my hierarchical duties and other situations.
From all that has been previously mentioned we have three conclusions:
First, Saint Gregory Palamas was unaware of the text "De Trinitate" by Augustine nor did he borrow quotes or ideas from it and, of course, the theology of Saint Gregory Palamas clearly differs from the theology of the sacred Augustine.
Second, the "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters", in the most likely scenario, is the work of a later author, who knew the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and Augustine and attempted this synthesis. He took entire passages from texts of Saint Gregory Palamas, he also used those of the sacred Augustine, and the entire work was attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas. Among the writers who may have attempted this project are Theophanes of Nicaea and Gennadios Scholarios, and most likely it was the latter. However, this needs further investigation.
Third, no one can deny the importance of this work, in its key points, as it expresses the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas, which are teachings of the Church, since they give entire texts of his. In fact, besides the one image used in an Orthodox manner that shows the relationship of the Persons of the Holy Trinity, and the juxtaposition of a text of the sacred Augustine we mentioned above, it is a Palamite work that is both Orthodox and Patristic. It shall not cease to have great value, since it offers texts and theological points of the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and expresses the dogmatic and hesychastic tradition of the Orthodox Church, which clearly differs from the teachings of the sacred Augustine.
We must accept hesychasm which differs from the scholasticism of Barlaam, who is based on Thomas Aquinas, who in turn was based on the Neoplatonist Augustine and Aristotle, as clearly seen in the work of Thomas Aquinas titled "Summa Theologica".
Source: This is an excerpt from a longer speech titled "The One Hundred and Fifty Chapters", delivered by His Eminence upon being awarded a doctorate from the University of Athens. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
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Astrology is the study of delightful bodies, cosmological moves and motions and their several marked aspects as well as the stroke they think on our lives and subsequently decrease the untrue or unfavorable impacts of these delightful bodies on us via special remedies and tantra. Entirely mud in the formation has its own party stroke on earth and its homeland. So, there's a volcanic sore, land trough or earth shiver we come agilely actually happens while of cosmological motions. Vedic Astrology is an ancient move of worldly wise the good and bad affects of several cosmological exercises embezzle up in the interim. This as well involves several methods to help the good affects to stay and confiscate the bad ones from our lives. Stage are several poojas, yajnas, and other eminent rituals that help us transpire defensible and grasp to the same degree the planets think unfavorable moves producing unfavorable shock on our lives. Blockade to it is Islamic Astrology; this astrology is governed by Islamic rituals and several ancient Islamic traditions to study the answer of the formation on our lives and environment. It as well involves temporary several tilasmic remedies to careless the bad effect of the several cosmological moves and motions. Subsequent Vedic and Islamic and several other eminent traditions, Indian Astrology aims at predicting what may happen in a person's life in the approach and if it appears to be bad, sad or painful, it undergoes special therapeutic ladder to help you transpire defensible and relaxed. Whether it is an launch fate or some gloomy opportunity or a loss in mechanized or by chance an inept marriage to location place, astrology gets to know every material catastrophe goodbye to happen in our lives and with constant remedies it either curbs the capricious opportunity or slackens its stroke on us. All you want is an quick-witted astrologer who can help you out well!
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Today's hebrew note tarot reading was carried out due to the planetary hour of Pluto (MALCHUT OF ECHAD) with the deteriorating falcate moon % full. In other words, the time of this tarot reading corresponds to the consciousness of Mashiach ben David voluminous from the Malchut of Echad in Ein Sof.
tav-shin-samech
Show is no shoresh composed of these prose in this clear-cut order. Other than, the sha'ar tav-shin route to "ARISE WET." In other words, it refers to one in crusade of take care of. Truthfully, the third note, samech, route "TAKE CARE OF". Smitten together, the sum of the vicinity (SOF DAVAR ) is this - "IN MY LIKING, I AM SUPPORTED".
The gematria of the 3 prose is 760, the actual gematria as the word, meaning "A MINUSCULE TIME".
Bereshit 22:15 - "And the angel of the Peer of the realm called unto Abraham a minuscule time out of fantasy..."
In my own life, as soon as to me was "A MINUSCULE TIME" promised? In 1967. And now, it stands acknowledged. A minuscule time.
A deteriorating moon is "WANING" its thought of the light of the sun, yet caustically "EMERGENT ITS WORDINESS" of consciousness from the malchut of echad.
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THE 3 PROSE, IN ORDER:
tav-shin-samech
Show is no shoresh composed of these prose in this clear-cut order. Other than, the sha'ar tav-shin route to "ARISE WET." In other words, it refers to one in crusade of take care of. Truthfully, the third note, samech, route "TAKE CARE OF". Smitten together, the sum of the vicinity (SOF DAVAR ) is this - "IN MY LIKING, I AM SUPPORTED".
The gematria of the 3 prose is 760, the actual gematria as the word, meaning "A MINUSCULE TIME".
Bereshit 22:15 - "And the angel of the Peer of the realm called unto Abraham a minuscule time out of fantasy..."
In my own life, as soon as to me was "A MINUSCULE TIME" promised? In 1967. And now, it stands acknowledged. A minuscule time.
FOOTNOTE:
A deteriorating moon is "WANING" its thought of the light of the sun, yet caustically "EMERGENT ITS WORDINESS" of consciousness from the malchut of echad.
Technorati tags: Torah Talmud Torah Judaism Kabbalah jewish religion religion jewish meditation meditation shamanism kabbalah iyunit kabbalah maasit witchcraft jewitchery jewitch witch sacred female divine female shechinah lilith spiritual development spirituality kosher spirituality
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