Gregory closes his fourth oration by analyzing the actual titles of the Son. While the being of God “cannot be expressed in words,” Gregory does believe it is possible to “sketch Him by His attributes, and so obtain a certain … Continue reading
Category Archives: Gregory Palamas
Gregory lays down a crucial principle in his biblical analysis of Proverbs 8:22, “The Lord created me at the beginning of his ways with a view to his works.” Many early Christian exegetes (scholars who study the meaning of biblical … Continue reading
St. Gregory also teaches, along with all the great Fathers of the Church, that the vision of Christ in glory – our salvation – is synonymous with the mystery of the precious and life-giving Cross. And this is true precisely … Continue reading
St. Gregory tells us that Christ is unique in that the union of human nature with His divine Person is hypostatic or in more modern terms, personal. But the consequence of this hypostatic union, namely, the exchange of the natural … Continue reading
I would continue sharing the thoughts of Gregory Palamas about Christ and the Holy Trinity. What the Three Persons do, he says, they do together, in unison. As St. Gregory of Nyssa teaches: We do not learn that the Father … Continue reading
According to St. Gregory, Christ is at the heart of all the great revelations of God to humankind in both the Old and New Testaments. As examples of this there are: The three men or angels that appeared to Abraham … Continue reading
In the last issue I began sharing some thoughts about our Father among the Saints, Gregory Palamas. He is, above all, the first and foremost theologian of the Transfiguration: that great New Testament (NT) theophany, which gives us, in a … Continue reading
One of the very important Eastern Fathers of the Church who is key in the interpretation of Holy Scripture, is St. Gregory Palamas. It was in 1334, while on Mt Athos, in his third year at the hermitage of St. … Continue reading
I have been trying, in this article, to provide my readers with excerpts from the great Greek Fathers of Our Church. As you have probably deduced from the material I presented from the work of Gregory Palamas, the Fathers are … Continue reading
As you have probably gathered if you have been following this article, Gregory uses the Transfiguration of Jesus as a means to help us come to a deeper understanding of human existence and also the purpose of this life, namely … Continue reading