Hesychasm (/ˈhɛsɪkæzəm, ˈhɛzɪ-/) is a contemplative monastic tradition in the Eastern Christian traditions of the Eastern Catholic Churches 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...

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...

theological justification for the centuries-old Orthodox practice of hesychasm. The hesychast controversy lead to a further distinction between East...

For them, the only Christian society was spiritual and not mundane. Hesychasm (from the Greek for "stillness, rest, quiet, silence") is a mystical 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...

Mark of Ephesus (Greek: Μάρκος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, born Manuel Eugenikos) was a hesychast theologian of the late Palaiologan period of the Byzantine Empire who...

Braničevo, Belgrade, Niš, and Velbazhd; and the sees of Tarnovo and Ohrid. Hesychasm (from Greek "stillness, rest, quiet, silence") is an eremitic tradition...

Paris Christian angelic hierarchy Gregory Palamas Apophatic theology Hesychasm Seven archangels Vladimir Lossky The Celestial Hierarchy – full text translated...