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The Hesychasm or Palamite controversy was not a conflict between Orthodoxy and the Papacy. [65] However, some Orthodox sources assert that it resulted in a direct theological conflict between Eastern Orthodox theology and the rise of Papal authority [66] and Western or Latin theology based on Scholasticism. [67]
The Hesychast controversy was a theological dispute in the Byzantine Empire during the 14th century between supporters and opponents of Gregory Palamas. While not a primary driver of the Byzantine Civil War of 1341 , it influenced and was influenced by the political forces in play during that war.
Palamas's opponents in the hesychast controversy spread slanderous accusations against him, and in 1344 Patriarch John XIV imprisoned him for four years. However, in 1347 when Patriarch Isidore came to the Ecumenical Throne, Gregory was released from prison and consecrated as the Metropolitan of Thessalonica. However, since the conflict with ...
In Eastern Orthodox theology, there is a distinction between the essence and the energies of God.It was formulated by Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) as part of his defense of the Athonite monastic practice of Hesychasm [note 1] against the charge of heresy brought by the humanist scholar and theologian Barlaam of Calabria.
Neo-Palamism has its roots in the Hesychast controversy or Palamite controversy (14th century), [26] [27] in which Gregory Palamas provided a theological justification for the centuries-old Orthodox practice of hesychasm. The hesychast controversy lead to a further distinction between East and West, giving a prominent place to the contemplative ...
On the hesychast side, the controversy was taken up by St. Gregory Palamas, afterwards Archbishop of Thessalonica, [13] ... In Palamite theology, it is the uncreated ...
The ensuing madness was one of the wilder and weirder stories in NFL lore — part who done it, part high-paid legal drama, part science lesson, part Rorschach test, part character assassination ...
The results of the council affected the Byzantine Civil War, with the supporters of Palamas siding on behalf of Kantakouzenos and the anti-Palamite Patriarch John XIV Kalekas supporting Empress Anna of Savoy. This in turn significantly weakened Byzantine authority to the advantage of the Bulgarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia.