Conferința inaugurală II: Stăniloae the Palamite – The Recovery of Palamas’ Hesychast Teaching by Dumitru Stăniloae and Its Role in His Theological Outlook
Inaugural Lecture II: Stăniloae the Palamite – The Recovery of Palamas’ Hesychast Teaching by Dumitru Stăniloae and Its Role in His Theological Outlook

Author(s): Norman Russell
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: Crainic; Burning Bush; deification; Hesychast Controversy; mystical theology; Palamas; Romanian Philokalia; Stăniloae;
Summary/Abstract: Dumitru Stăniloae first encountered Palamas at the beginning of his doctoral research. His pioneering study of Palamas was only published in 1938, however, in response to hostile Roman Catholic critiques of Palamism. In this study Stăniloae presents the Hesychast Controversy as an East/West dispute, a judgement he did not modify in the 1993 reissue of the work despite his deepening appreciation of Palamas in later life. The evolution of Stăniloae’s understanding of Palamas as a mystical theologian is best understood through his contacts with Nichifor Crainic, his experience of imprisonment, and most of all his augmented translation of the Romanian Philokalia.

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