The Homilies. Edited and translated from the original Greek with an Introduction and notes by Christopher Veniamin, with the assistance of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist

GREGORY PALAMAS, St (ed) VENIAMIN, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0977498344 / ISBN 13: 9780977498345

Published by Mount Thabor Pub, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Homilies. Edited and translated from the original Greek with an Introduction and notes by Christopher Veniamin, with the assistance of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist
• Publisher: Mount Thabor Pub
• Publication Date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0977498344
• ISBN 13: 9780977498345
• Binding: Binding sound, text unmarked
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: No ownership marks
• Seller catalogs:
  • Eastern Christianity

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Synopsis

This is the 2022 (3rd reprint edition with corrections and a revised Index of Names and Subjects) of The Scholar's Edition, designed for priests, theologians and the interested layperson. The first edition of all sixty-three extant sermons by St. Gregory to appear in English translation, presented together with an Introduction to the Homilies, over 1,000 notes and scholia, an index of Scriptural References, an index of Names and Subjects, and an index of Greek Words, designed to transform this remarkable treasury of Patristic wisdom into an invaluable reference resource for the student of theology. This edition completes and supersedes The Homilies of Saint Gregory Palamas.

About the Author

Ascetic and Metropolitan bishop of Thessalonica (1347-1359). Greatest exponent of Hesychasm. The teaching of St. Gregory and his fellow Hesychasts was based on the understanding that man, the greatest of all God's creatures, had been called to enter into direct and unmediated communion with God even from this present life. The chief manner by which this is achieved is through the grace of God and noetic prayer, that is, through the Prayer of the Heart, also known as the Jesus Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me. For the Hesychasts, therefore, true theology, real knowledge of God, is given not to those whose minds have been exercised in lofty concepts about God, but to those who, through prayer and ascetic striving in accordance with the commandments of Christ, have been made worthy to behold the vision of Christ in glory, to those who have seen God face to face and share in His very Life.