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Palamite, n. and a. Eccl. Hist.|ˈpæləmaɪt|
[f. the name of St. Gregory Palamas, an intellectual leader of the Hesychasts + -ite1.]
A. n. = Hesychast.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Palamites or their doctrines; = hesychastic a. 2.
1859Encycl. Brit. XVII. 177/1 At the councils which were severally held in 1341 and 1351 he [sc. Gregorius Palamas] pled the cause of his party, and so identified him⁓self with the tenets he advocated that his fellow-sectarians were thenceforth called Palamites. 1877McClintock & Strong Cycl. Bibl. Lit. VII. 547/2 The peculiar leading tenets of the Palamites were the existence of the mystical light discovered by the more eminent monks and recluses in their long exercises of abstract contemplation and prayer, and the uncreated nature of the light of Mount Tabor seen at the transfiguration of Christ. Ibid. 548/1 These alleged heresies were, however, mostly..the inferences deduced by Nicephorus Gregoras and other opponents from the Palamite dogma of uncreated light, and not the acknowledged tenets of the Palamite party. 1900‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe vi. 252 The quarrel between the Palamites and Barlaamites, after distracting the Eastern Church, was at last settled by a Synod in a sense favourable to the former. 1949E. L. Mascall Existence & Analogy vi. 151 For the Thomist, supernatural grace means a communication of God himself to the creature... For the Palamite, it means a communication of the uncreated energy of God though not of his uncommunicable essence. 1957Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 633/2 In the second half of the 14th cent. Hesychasm was accepted throughout the Greek Church, its adherents being also generally known as ‘Palamites’. 1961Times 24 Nov. 14/4 Moghila did not admit the Palamite doctrine of energies. 1971Catholic Dict. Theol. III. 15/1 This controversy, also known as the Palamite controversy.., was concerned not so much with the spiritual doctrine of the Hesychasts as with its ultimate theological and metaphysical justification. |