IS GREGORY PALAMAS AN EXISTENTIALIST?

Παρουσίαση

Τheologians and Christian historians of thought, expounding the doctrine of a beloved Christian thinker of theirs, are often eager to present him as a person whose message has important connotations of a diachronic nature. Their eagerness has sometimes proved fruitful. (AΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)

Περιεχόμενα

INTRODUCTION
I. PALAMAS’ DEFENSE OF THE SAINT HESYCHASTS III, 2,11-12 AND ITS CONTEXT: PALAMAS AS DEBATER
II. MEYENDORF’S MISINTERPRETATION: THE INTRUSION OF THEOLOGICAL EXISTENTIALISM IN PALAMAS’ THOUGHT
1. PALAMAS’ COMMENT ON EXODUS 3,14
2. PALAMAS AND THE GREEK NOTION OF GOD AS ΑΥΤΟΠΑΡΑΚΤΟΣ
ΙΙΙ. ΤΗΕ RESTORATION OF PALAMAS’ COMMENT ON EXODUS 3,14
1. THE TRADITIONAL GREEK PATRISTIC USE OF ΟΥΣΙΑ AND ΕΙΝΑΙ AS THEONYMICAL TERMS
2. THE AREOPAGITIC DE DIVINIS NOMINIBUS 5,4 AS THE DIRECT SOURCE OF PALAMAS’ COMMENT
3. THE NEOPLATONIC ORIGINS OF THE (PSEUDO-) DIONYSIAN AND PALAMITE TERMINOLOGY ΟΥΣΙΑ-ΕΙΝΑΙ
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX NOMINUM