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Grégoire Palamas , saint de l'Église orthodoxe, a développé dans sa pensée cet adage des Pères, selon lequel Dieu s'est fait homme, pour que l'homme devienne Dieu. Il résume une longue tradition à ce sujet, à laquelle il se veut fidèle et qui touche à la question la plus fondamentale du christianisme, celle du salut ou de la déification de l'homme. C'est l'une des plus belles synthèses à ce sujet, avec celle de Maxime le Confesseur.

La synthèse de théologie mystique proposée ici repose principalement, mais non pas exclusivement sur le travail de J. Meyendorff pour traduire du grec ancien, présenter et commenter d'un point de vue théologique l'ouvrage de Grégoire Palamas intitulé Défense des saints hésychastes , lequel est mentionné dans la bibliographie.

Quant à la vie et l’œuvre de Grégoire Palamas, c'est également J. Meyendorff qui est la principale référence ici dans la première partie de son ouvrage intitulé Introduction à l'étude de Grégoire Palamas, qui est également mentionné dans la bibliographie.

✵ 1296 – 14. novembre 1359
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Grégoire Palamas: Citations en anglais

“The soul completely dominated by its desire for spiritual instruction is never sated.”

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Gregory Palamas

The Philokalia Vol. 4, Faber and Faber.

“Do you see? There exists a kind of knowledge that is without love. It does not purify the psyche in any way, but kills it, as it lacks the love that is the head, the body, and very root of all virtue.”

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Source: Holy Hesychia: The Stillness that Knows God, p. 33

“The soul completely dominated by its desire for spiritual instruction is never sated.It is because of this that Wisdom says of herself, 'Those who eat Me will still be hungry' (Eccles. 24:21); while the Lord, who has instilled this divine desire in the soul, says of Mary who chose 'what is best' that it will not be taken away from her (cf. Luke 10:42).”

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Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 295

“Anyone who considers himself guilty before God and repents must believe that the reproach and contempt of others towards him is just and to be endured.”

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Gregory Palamas

Source: Homilies (Mount Tabor Publishing), p. 13

“The summit of evil, the crime most natural to the devil, pride, was born of knowledge. But if this is so, how can it be possible that all the passions result from ignorance? Does knowledge purify the psyche? Paul says: Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up”

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1 Corinthians 8:1
Source: Holy Hesychia: The Stillness that Knows God, p. 33

“As the separation of the soul from the body is the death of the body, so the separation of God from the soul is the death of the soul. And this death of the soul is the true death.”

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Gregory Palamas

Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 296

“Some people, because their minds have gone so long without nourishment, lose their desire to eat and so do not notice the harm they are suffering.”

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Source: The Parables of Jesus: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas

“Famine means being deprived of and desiring necessary food. But there is something worse and more wretched than this famine: when someone is deprived of the necessary means of salvation and does not perceive his misfortune, having no desire to be saved.”

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Source: The Parables of Jesus: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas

“Thanksgiving for the benefits received from God is made acceptable by humility and not looking down on those who lack them. It is rendered unacceptable, however, by being conceited, as if those benefits resulted from our own efforts and knowledge, and by condemning those who have not received them.”

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Source: The Parables of Jesus: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas

“Anybody who thinks he is something great, even before God, is rightly abandoned by God, as one who thinks that he does not need His help.”

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Source: The Parables of Jesus: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas

“Let us take off our life’s complex covering of rapacity and greed, since it is ugly in God’s sight and condemned, and let us put on, as the elect of God, compassion, humility, modesty and meekness.”

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Source: Predestination? On Why God Made Those Who Would Perish

“Anyone who states that God should not have made those people who will be punished, is also saying that He should not have made those who will be saved, or any rational and free beings at all.”

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Source: Predestination? On Why God Made Those Who Would Perish

“How can someone have the freedom to choose and the power to act freely, unless he were able to be evil, should he so wish?”

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Predestination? On Why God Made Those Who Would Perish

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