Reflections on St. Gregory’s Dialogue IX

[Previous reflections, including a brief historical context, are to be found here.] As will be noted below, this is the last in this series of reflections. On Participation in God XLIV. O[rthodox]. Hence, when we know His activity but not His essence, we do not commit an outrage to the supernatural character of His simplicity. [...]

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Reflections on St. Gregory’s Dialogue VIII

[Previous reflections, including a brief historical context, are to be found here.] On the Divine Simplicity L. . . . B[arlaamite]. Why is God not composed when He has both an eternal essence and an eternal activity? O[rthodox]. . . . the divine is one and simple in its essence; and that “one” is, in [...]

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Reflections on St. Gregory’s Dialogue VII

[Previous reflections, including a brief historical context, are to be found here.] These reflections seem on one level a farce. There are others who are much more knowledgeable than me about these things, whether intellectually or ascetically. But I do want to struggle with these things for my own understanding, such that it can be. [...]

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Reflections on St. Gregory’s Dialogue VI

[Previous reflections, including a brief historical context, are to be found here.] These are the reflections of someone particularly ignorant about such deep matters, let alone of this specific Church Father. There are others who are much more knowledgeable than me. What I will attempt with these reflections is to bring together the deep theology [...]

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Reflections on St. Gregory’s Dialogue V

[Previous reflections, including a brief historical context, are to be found here.] These are the reflections of someone particularly ignorant about such deep matters, let alone of this specific Church Father. There are others who are much more knowledgeable than me. What I will attempt with these reflections is to bring together the deep theology [...]

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Reflections on St. Gregory’s Dialogue IV

[Previous reflections, including a brief historical context, are to be found here.] These are the reflections of someone particularly ignorant about such deep matters, let alone of this specific Church Father. There are others who are much more knowledgeable than me. What I will attempt with these reflections is to bring together the deep theology [...]

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Reflections on St. Gregory’s Dialogue III

[Previous reflections, including a brief historical context, are to be found here.] These are the reflections of someone particularly ignorant about such deep matters, let alone of this specific Church Father. There are others who are much more knowledgeable than me. What I will attempt with these reflections is to bring together the deep theology [...]

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Reflections on St. Gregory’s Dialogue II

[Previous reflections, including a brief historical context, are to be found here.] These are the reflections of someone particularly ignorant about such deep matters, let alone of this specific Church Father. There are others who are much more knowledgeable than me. What I will attempt with these reflections is to bring together the deep theology [...]

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Reflections on St. Gregory’s Dialogue I

This is the first in a series of reflections on several quotations from St. Gregory Palamas’ Dialogue between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite. At the beginning of this year, I lamented the lack of serious posts on my blog, particularly in the last seven or eight months of last year. One thing that I knew [...]

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