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- Hesychasm (/ˈhɛsɪkæzəm, ˈhɛzɪ-/) is a contemplative monastic tradition in the Eastern Christian traditions of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern...
- Orthodox Church as well as the canonization of Palamas. About the year 1337, Hesychasm attracted the attention of a learned member of the Orthodox Church, Barlaam...
- theological justification for the centuries-old Orthodox practice of hesychasm. The hesychast controversy lead to a further distinction between East...
- 1296 – 1359), whose writings defended the Eastern Orthodox practice of Hesychasm against the attack of Barlaam. Followers of Palamas are sometimes referred...
- doctrine concerning hesychasm, the Western Church held no council in which to make a pronouncement on the issue, and the word "hesychasm" does not appear...
- For them, the only Christian society was spiritual and not mundane. Hesychasm (from the Gr**** for "stillness, rest, quiet, silence") is a mystical tradition...
- Mark of Ephesus (Gr****: Μάρκος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, born Manuel Eugenikos) was a hesychast theologian of the late Palaiologan period of the Byzantine Empire who...
- Edward Pace called "the vagaries of Hesychasm", thus betraying the same prejudices as Fortescue with regard to hesychasm; and, again in the same period, Siméon...
- Braničevo, Belgrade, Niš, and Velbazhd; and the sees of Tarnovo and Ohrid. Hesychasm (from Gr**** "stillness, rest, quiet, silence") is an eremitic tradition...
- the ancient practice of mental prayer known as "prayer of the heart" or hesychasm. In 1326, because of the threat of Turkish invasions, he and the brethren...