The victory of Palamas was the victory of Christian humanism over the pagan humanism of the Renaissance. The full measure of the controversys significance can be grasped only in the light of what followed. An ineluctable decision was set before the Orthodox Church in the fourteenth century: a choice between a unitary (integral) concept of man based on the Bible, affirming the immediate efficacy of redemptive grace in every sphere of human activity, or the choice of an intellectualized spiritualism claiming independence for the human intellect, or at least autonomy from all matter, and denying that any real deification is possible here below. There is no doubt that the secularism of the modern age is the direct consequence of the second choice. --John Meyendorff, St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality via Joseph Olivares
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 02:11:59 +0000
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