Argues that Gregory Palamas's philosophical and theological synthesis arises from his mystical experience of hesychasm, and that Palamas claims humans can participate in God's uncreated eternal activities ("energeiai") rather than His essence, and that all things are constituted by this participation and can thereby reach moral and ontic perfection.
Abstract
Gregory Palamas creates philosophical and theological synthesis, which originates from his own mystical experience of hesychasm. Palamas claims that man can participate in non created, eternal energeiai of God, which are the external activities ofGod’s uosia – essence. Palamas says that all things participate in God, and they are constituted by this participation, they do not, however, participate in His nature, but in Hisactivity. A man participates in God’s eternal activities and in this way can achieve moral and ontic perfectness.