This study presents a new perspective on an important fourteenth-century Greek theologian, Gregory Palamas.

• Bibliographical Abbreviations


• Introduction


• Part I THE HISTORICAL RECEPTION OF PALAMITE THEOLOGY


• 1: The Orthodox Struggle to Assimilate Palamite Thinking


• 2: Martin Jugie and the invention of Palamism


• 3: John Meyendorff's Response to Jugie


• 4: New Directions since Meyendorff


• Part II RAISING THE LARGER QUESTIONS


• 5: What Does Doctrinal Development Mean?


• 6: How is a Participatory Understanding of the Divine Mystery to be Attained?


• 7: What is the Reality of Divine-Human Communion?


• 8: Could Palamas Become 'the Inheritance of all Christians'?


• Concluding Reflections


• Select Bibliography

Norman Russell is Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House, University of Oxford. He is a noted patristics scholar and translator of contemporary Greek philosophers and theologians. His work has been translated into several languages, including Romanian and Mandarin Chinese. An Orthodox since 2010, he lives in Burgundy, France. His publications include The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition (2005) and Metaphysics as a Personal Adventure: Christos Yannaras in Conversation with Norman Russell (2017).