The Hesychastic Controversy (14th cent.)

Update on 12.1.2023

The updates are added at the end of the links related to each philosopher.

General studies on the Hesychastic Controversy

An Overview on the Hesychastic Controversy, Archbisop Chrysostomos

The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Greek Orthodox Thought: A Study of the Hesychast Basis of the Thought of John S. Romanides and Christos Yannaras, Daniel Paul Payne

Palamas and Florensky The Metaphysics of the Heart in Patristic and Russian Philosophical Tradition, Justyna Kroczak (Zielona Góra)

The Hesychastic Synods of the Fourteenth Century as the Ninth Œcumenical Synod of the Orthodox Church, Bishop Klemes of Gardikion

Byzantine Hesychasm in the 14th and 15th centuries, Anita Strezova

The Proto-Hesychasts: Origins of mysticism in the Eastern church, Theodore Sabo 

Hesyhasm in the discourse of philosophical antropology, Sergii Eskov

PARALLELS TO THE BYZANTINE-HESYCHAST, DIVINE ESSENCE/ENERGIES DISTINCTION, Michael M. Morbey

The Yoga of Hesychasm, James S. Cutsinger

Dimensions of Mystical Anthropology of the XX Century: Hesychasm and Tibetan Buddhism Compared, Elizabete Taivåne

Hesychasm Encounters Lectio Divina: An Intercultural Analysis of Eastern and Western Christian Contemplative Practices, Moe Moe Nyunt

TWO METHODS OF CONTEMPLATION:
YOGA AND HESYCHAST PRAYER. An Exercise in Comparative Religion, Milica Bakić-Hayden

Authority and Tradition in Contemporary Understandings of Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer, Christopher David Leonard Johnson

A Hesychastic Confession of faith,  Hieromonk Teach. Assist. Vasile Birzu

Specifics of methodology historical and philosophical researh of hesychasm, A. B. Klimenko (Донецкий национальный университет)

Barlaam the Calabrian

Barlaam of Seminara, Wikipedia article

The Art of Breathing in the West, Elémire Zolla

AN OVERVIEW OF THE HESYCHASTIC CONTROVERSY, Archbishop Chrysostomos

«Una è la verità che pervade ogni cosa» La sapienza profana nelle opere perdute di Barlaam Calabro, Michele Trizio

Gregory Palamas

Experiment and Knowledge of Reality in the Hesychast View,  Dan Chiţoiu

The Distinction between God’s Essence and Energy: Gregory Palamas’ idea of Ultimate Reality and Meaning

Gregory of Palamas and the Pope of Rome

 St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers, Archpriest Georges Florovsky

THE CONTRIBUTION OF SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS TO HESYCHASM. THEOLOGICAL PRESSUPOSITIONS OF THE LIFE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, Dimitrios Tselegidis

Theology and Natural Sciences in St Gregory Palamas, Doru Costache

Gregory Palamas – The Triads,  J. Meyendorff (Intro)

The Heart in the Hesychastic Treatises of St Gregory Palamas, Monk Vartholomaeos

The Knowable-Unknowable Triune God: Gregory Palamas’s Essence-Energy Distinction from the Perspectives of Vladimir Lossky and Catherine Mowry LaCugna, John Dave Medina

Theoria & Praxis according to St Gregory Palamas, Paul Yazigi

Gregory Palamas and Hesychasm, Gregory Congote

THEOSIS: The Telos of Humanity in both Calvin and Palamas?  Lisa Rene Vander Leek

Humility in the writings of Meister Eckhart and Gregory Palamas, Adrian Ignat

The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Greek Orthodox Thought: A Study of the Hesychast Basis of the Thought of John S. Romanides and Christos Yannaras, Daniel Paul Payne – Derek H. Davis

The Concept of “Being” in Aquinas and Palamas, Christian Untea

PALAMAS AND SCHOLASTICISM: HESYCHISM AND SCHOLASTICIM, Kyle Lickiss

A SERMON ABOUT THE ANTI-PALAMITE THEOLOGIAN GREGORY AKYNDINOS OF PRILEP, Robert Mihajlovski

Γνώση, Πίστη και Μέθοδος: Η Αντίθεση του Αγίου Γρηγορίου Παλαμά στον Αγνωστικισμό και στη Σχετικοκρατία της Ύστερης Βυζαντινής Φιλοσοφίας, Κωνσταντίνος Αθανασόπουλος

Sf. Grigorie Palama şi noua teologie occidentală, Γεώργιος Μαρτζέλος

Το Άγ. Πνεύμα ως “έρως απόρρητος” μεταξύ Πατρός και Υιού κατά τον άγ. Γρηγόριο Παλαμά, Γεώργιος Μαρτζέλος

Der heilige Gregorios Palamas und die neuere deutschsprachige Theologie, Γεώργιος Μαρτζέλος

Η στάση του βυζαντινού λόγιου Δημήτριου Κυδώνη έναντι της θεολογίας του Γρηγορίου Παλαμά, Άννα Κόλτσιου-Νικήτα

“Ἀυτήκοος γεγονὼς τῆς τῶν ἀποστόλων τοῦ Χριστοῦ φωνῆς”. The Authority of Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagite in the Treatise “On Divine Unities and Distinctions” of Gregory Palamas (in Serbian, with summary in English), Mikonja Knežević

Δύνᾶμις τοῦ Θεοῦ. The Ontology of the Human Hypostasis in Gregory Palamas, Raffaele Guerra

Palamas Among the Scholastics, Christiaan Kappes, Alex Giltner, and J. Isaac Goff

Scholarius [translation]: Defense of Palamas’ Essence & Energies against Aquinas’ ‘De ente et essentia’, Christiaan Kappes

Gregory Palamas’ Use of Augustine’s De Trinitate for Original Sin and its Application to the Theotokos & Scholarius’ Palamitico-Augustinianism of the Immaculate Conception, Christiaan Kappes

“Ἀυτήκοος γεγονὼς τῆς τῶν ἀποστόλων τοῦ Χριστοῦ φωνῆς”. Ауторитет Дионисија Псеудо-Ареопагита у спису “О божанским јединствима и разликовањима” Григорија Паламе, Mikonja Knežević

“Ek” и “dia” у “Аподиктичким словима о исхођењу Светог Духа” Григорија Паламе, Mikonja Knežević

Mens-notitia-amor. A Scholium on the “Augustinus/Palamas” Case (in Serbian, with summary in English), Mikonja Knežević

The Order (τάξις) of Persons of the Holy Trinity in “Apodictic Treatises” of Gregory Palamas, Mikonja Knežević

Ἐξ ἀμφοῖν. Кирило Александријски и полемика око filioque Григорија Паламе, Mikonja Knežević

PALAMAS TRANSFORMED. PALAMITE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN GOD’S ‘ESSENCE’ AND ‘ENERGIES’ IN LATE BYZANTIUM, John Demetracopoulos

The Reception of Palamas in the West Today, NORMAN RUSSELL

Gregory Palamas and our Knowledge of God, Richard Swinburne

«Colui che è pace del tutto». Per uno studio del concetto di sophía nella teologia di Gregorio Palamas, Raffaele Guerra

Les conceptions anthropologiques de Saint Grégoire Palamas et de George Gémiste Pléthon: un débat sur le rôle de l’homme dans l’univers, Kassia (Tatiana) Senina

Plotinus the Antipalamite, Frederick Lauritzen

John VI Kantakouzenos

John VI Kantakouzenos, Wikipedia article

The Reluctant Emperor, Donald M. Nicol

Ιωάννης ΣΤ’ Καντακουζηνός: το Θεολογικό του έργο, Γρηγόριος Ν. Μπάκαβος

LA RENAISSANCE BYZANTINE DE JEAN CANTACUZÈNE, Nicolae Iorga

Theophanes of Nicaea

The symbol as a meeting point of energies and categories – the symbolic status of the Eucharistic gifts according to Theophanes of Nicaea, Smilen Markov

Κτιστό και Άκτιστο στον Θεοφάνη Νικαίας: σπουδή στην περί δημιουργίας διδασκαλία του (Created and Uncreated according to Theophanes of Nicea: A study in his teaching on creation), Petros Toulis (Ph.D)

Nicholas Cabasilas

Νικόλαος Καβάσιλας, Wikipedia article

The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas:A Mystagogical Work, Nicholas Denysenko

Understanding of Christian life by St. Nicholas Cabasilas and its contemporary significance,  Priest Demetrios Bathrellos

A Commentary on the Divine Liturgy, Google preview

Nicholas Cabasilas Chamaetos and his teaching concerning the Theotokos, Athanasios Vakrakos

Divine Presence in the Eucharistic Theology of Nicholas Cabasilas, Pekka Metso

The Grace of God in Creation: Palamas, Cabasilas,And Sacramental Theology, Peter J. Pappas

A New Narrative for the Reception of Seven Sacraments into Orthodoxy: Peter Lombard’s Sentences in Nicholas Cabasilas and Symeon of Thessalonica and the Holy Synaxis’s utilization of John Duns Scotus, Christiaan Kappes

Nicholas Cabasilas’ Quaestio de Rationis Valore: An anti-Palamite defense of secular wisdom, John Demetracopoulos

Νικολάου Καβάσιλα Κατά Πύρρωνος. Πλατωνικός φιλοσκεπτικισμός και αριστοτελικός αντισκεπτικισμός στη βυζαντινή διανόηση του 14ου αιώνα, Ιωάννης Δημητρακόπουλος

ИДЕЙНАЯ ПОЛЕМИКА В ВИЗАНТИИ 50-х гг. XIV в.: Николай Кавасила и Никифор Гоигора, С. В. КРАСИКОВ

Gregorios Palamas’ Reception of Augustine’s Original Sin and Nicholas Kabasilas’ Rejection of Aquinas’ Maculism as Background to Scholarios’ Immaculism, Christiaan Kappes

A New Narrative for the Reception of Seven Sacraments into Orthodoxy: Peter Lombard’s Sentences in Nicholas Cabasilas and Symeon of Thessalonica and the Utilization of John Duns Scotus by the Holy Synaxis, Christiaan Kappes

Demetrios Kydones

Demetrios Kydones, Wikipedia article

Demetrios Cydones’ Translation of Bernardus Guidonis’ List of Thomas Aquinas’ Writings and the Historical Roots of Byzantine Thomism, John Demetracopoulos

 Towards an edition of Demetrios Kydones’s autograph translation of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, Christopher Wright

Prochoros Kydones

Prochorus Cydones, Wikipedia artlcle

Prochoros Kydones’ Translation of Augustine’s “On True Religion”

Η βυζαντινή μετάφραση του έργου του Βοήθιου De Differentiis Topicis από τον Πρόχορο Κυδώνη, Δ. Ζ. Νικήτας

Η ανέκδοτη μετάφραση επιλεγμένων quaestiones του Υπομνήματος του Δομινικανού Hervaeus Natalis στις Sententiae του Πέτρου Λομβαρδού από τον Πρόχορο Κυδώνη, Christiaan Kappes

George-Gennadios Scholarios and Byzantine Science of Second Intentions: Thomas Aquinas’s, Hervaeus Natalis’s, and Prochoros Kydones’s Influence on Palamite Logic, Christiaan Kappes

Gregory Akindynos

Ο Γρηγόριος Ακίνδυνος μέσα από τις επιστολές του, Άννα Τρύφωνος Θωμαίδου

Some Notes on the Letters of Gregory Akindynos, Angela Constantinides Hero 

Ioannis Kyparissiotes

John Kyparissiotes, Wikipedia article

IOANNES KYPARISSIOTES STOICHEIODES EKTHESIS TON THEOLOGIKON RHESEON
(lHRE UBERLIEFERUNO UND IHR OEHALT), BASILEIOS L. DENTAKIS

Manuel Chrysoloras

Μανουήλ Χρυσολωράς, Wikipedia article

Describing Rome in Greek: Manuel Chrysoloras’ Comparison of Old and New Rome, Ruth Webb

MANUEL CHRYSOLORAS AND THE EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCEIan Thomson

Demetrios Chrysoloras

An annotated critical edition of Demetrios Chrysoloras’ Dialogue on Demetrios Kydones’ Antirrhetic against Neilos Kabasilas, Vasos Pasiourtides

Manuel Kalekas

La terza messa ambrosiana di natale tradotta in greco e commentata da Manuele Caleca, Andrea Massimo Cuomo

Modern Language Translations of Byzantine Sources Digitized Greek Manuscripts, Princeton University Library

Manuel Bryennios

Manuel Bryennios, Wikipedia article

Joseph Bryennios

JOSEPH BRYENNIOS

 An Early Attempt at Dialogue – Joseph Bryennios and the Discussions Toward a Council of Union (1414-1431), Hieromonk Gabriel (Patacsi)