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This is a classic in regards to the Orthodox understanding of God through prayer, especially through the use of the Jesus prayer, as opposed to a strictly academic understanding of God. Palamas single handedly destroyed our understanding in the usefulness of Greek philosophy in helping a Christian understand God in His attributes and nature and instead argued that God's nature cannot be known, but that what we can know about Him is through His energies and we can only truly know God through Theoria (contemplation and meditation upon God) and Theosis (uniting with God). This can be achieved through prayer and fasting. Further, the prayer that Palamas advocated was the Jesus prayer or prayer of the heart (Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy upon me a sinner) to be said and repeated constantly without end. Palamas is a true spiritual master and mystic in the Orthodox Christian tradition. This current volume contained the main portions of His Triads that articulate and explain Palamas' mystical Christian theology. This book is a spiritual gem that is a must have for all those who are interested in Eastern Orthodox Spirituality.


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Gregory Palamas The Triads Classics of Western Spirituality Gregory Palamas Nicholas Gendle John Meyendorff 9780809124473 Books Reviews

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This is a translation of Gregory Palamas' "Triads" with an introduction by John Meyendorff. The popular level illustrated version of John Meyendorff's "Study of Gregory Palamas" mentioned above is "Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality".St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality The Triads is a major work of Gregory Palamas written about 1339/1340 defending the possibility of direct experience of God against Barlaam of Calabria.
In his defense of Hesychasm and Icons, St. Gregory also explains in detail the Eastern mystical tradition of experiencing the presence of God through His uncreated Energies. One of the real bonuses of this selection of Palamas' writings are the excellent and copious notes of explanation of the text by Eastern Orthodox Theologian and Palamas scholar, Fr. John Meyendorff.
John Meyendorff gives here a very interesting view of the historical theological battle between Palamas and his opponents that helps the saint to develop his theories and affirm them in a very personal and authentic manner.
God bless him!
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. 46).

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.
I have only one complaint with this translation some parts were taken out. Here, an excerpt from the Foreword

"I have taken the liberty of occasionally eliminating passagesthat are of purely rhetorical and polemical nature, and such ommissions are indicated in our text by ellepsis point."

This saddened me while I read this, as many times when it was indicated there was an ommission at interesting points, of which would have been nice to know all of what he wished to say, regardless of what others think of how important it is. So, besides the somewhat frequent ommissions, it is a good book and I would recommend it to all who are interested in Christian Theology, specifically of the Orthodox.
St. Gregory Palamas reveals and reviews for our shallow western mind-set the unfathomable depths of the holy Orthodox Christian Faith, setting before us these depths through the writings of St. Maximos the Confessor, not easily read, and for those outside the Orthodox Faith not easily understood.
This is a classic in regards to the Orthodox understanding of God through prayer, especially through the use of the Jesus prayer, as opposed to a strictly academic understanding of God. Palamas single handedly destroyed our understanding in the usefulness of Greek philosophy in helping a Christian understand God in His attributes and nature and instead argued that God's nature cannot be known, but that what we can know about Him is through His energies and we can only truly know God through Theoria (contemplation and meditation upon God) and Theosis (uniting with God). This can be achieved through prayer and fasting. Further, the prayer that Palamas advocated was the Jesus prayer or prayer of the heart (Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy upon me a sinner) to be said and repeated constantly without end. Palamas is a true spiritual master and mystic in the Orthodox Christian tradition. This current volume contained the main portions of His Triads that articulate and explain Palamas' mystical Christian theology. This book is a spiritual gem that is a must have for all those who are interested in Eastern Orthodox Spirituality.