Byzantine Philosophy: Transfiguration of Man in the Tabor Light Doctrine of Gregory Palamas

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10.2991/assehr.k.210902.028How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Man in Byzantine philosophy, Hesychasm, Transfiguration of God and the Human being, Theology of Chrisitianity

Abstract

The anthropological issues of philosophy of the late period Byzantium are under consideration in the article. The particular attention is paid to the substantiation of the Tabor Light conception of Gregory Palamas, a founder of Byzantine Hesychasm. Palamas’ Uncreated Light (Tabor) doctrine is submitted concerning his teaching on God’s energies and his understanding of the human being. The author shows the essential change of the Human being in connection with his perception of the Divine Light, i.e., the transfiguration of Man by the Light. Some provisions of Hesychasm connected with religious gnosis and the possibilities of the human mind in the knowledge of the Godhead are considered.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Olga V. Chistyakova
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/04
TI  - Byzantine Philosophy: Transfiguration of Man in the Tabor Light Doctrine of Gregory Palamas
BT  - Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. (Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research) (ICCESSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 167
EP  - 171
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210902.028
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210902.028
ID  - Chistyakova2021
ER  -