Gregory Palamas and the Making of Palamism in the Modern Age

The fourteenth-century Greek hesychast and controversialist, Gregory Palamas, has been so successfully cast as ''the other'' in Western theological discourse that it can be difficult to gain a sympathetic hearing for him. In the first part of this book, Norman Russell traces the historical reception of Palamite thought in Orthodoxy and in the West, and investigates how ''Palamism'' was constructed...