Gregory Palamas: The Triads (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by John Meyendorff, Nicholas Gendle
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Author: John Meyendorff, Nicholas GendleEdition: Paperback
Audio: Greek (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1982-08
ISBN: 0809124475
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Paulist Press
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Book Review: Words and rules to appreciate the subtle messages of hesychasm
Summary: 4 Stars
Throughout "The Triads" from the 14th-century, St. Gregory Palamas is caught in a conundrum of apophatic silence and apodictic experiential observations. On the one hand, Palamas must describe the ineffible energy of the divine presence as manifest in a monk's hesychasm. By the same token, Palamas must avoid scholastic formulations about hesychasm, which were promulgated by Latin immigrees in Athos, chief among whom was one Latin monk Barlaam. Scholastic reasoning was formulaic and required every manifestation of God to fit into conditional sentences and quid-pro-quo logic.
This 110-page translation of "The Triads" gathers pastoral, theological didactic, and spiritual counsels to ascertain the major obstacles to knowing God according to Barlaam and his Calabrian brothers (from Italy). Liberal treatment of earlier hesychasts and iconodoules in this text, such as St. Maximos the Confessor, provide evidence that Palamas considered the task at hand not his alone, but instead the task of the collective Orthodox communion.
On a more practical side, Palamas and Barlaam go head to head with differences about planned insensibilities. Deprivations such as fasting from food and sleep, according to Palamas and the hesychasts, provide occasions for God to unfold his loving plans for us; Barlaam discredits these occasions as outside the realm of God's grace.
But for the Hesychast, the effort is to remove distractions from mind and body, such as comfort level, and instead focus all attention on the heart, awaiting the day when the Lord will restore the heart in divine grace. After having restored the heart in divine grace, Palamas quotes from the Apostle, "God has given His Spirit to cry in our hearts, Abba, Father (Gal. 4:6).
The "Classics of Western Spirituality" (Paulist Press) have gone far to bring eastern and western spiritual classics to a wide audience since the mid-to-late 1970's. Publications in the series now outnumber 50. This volume, although recent, bears witness to the mark that at least two team members left Western jurisdictions right around the time that this volume was released. Two publication-team members, a renowned Lutheran Reformation historian, Jaroslav Pelikan and wife, and the Jesuit-mystical theologian, George Maloney, S.J. were received into Holy Orthodoxy by chrismation.
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