hesychasm

Roman Catholic theologians have generally expressed a negative view of hesychasm.

The hesychasm controversy also took place during the rule of the Palaiologoi dynasty.

Further, the associated practice of hesychasm used to achieve theosis was characterized as "magic".

In Eastern Orthodoxy, this approach is known as hesychasm.

Kantakouzenos also wrote a defence of Hesychasm, a Greek mystical doctrine.

The popularity of the book was influential in the modern rediscovery of hesychasm as a living practice.

This identification may have been motivated in part by the fact that "quietism" is the literal translation of "hesychasm".

Nevertheless, Roman Catholicism in recent years has shown itself more open to ideas of Hesychasm.

Kallistos Ware distinguishes five distinct meanings of the term "hesychasm":

Of the Monastic tradition the practice of hesychasm is most important as a way to establish a direct relationship with God.

While traditionally taught and practiced in monasteries, hesychasm teachings have spread over the years to include laymen.

They made available for the first time, in English, the bulk of that Eastern Orthodox text on the hesychasm tradition.

In Constantinople, a succession of councils alternately approved and condemned doctrine concerning hesychasm.

Hesychasm became a hallmark of the Orthodox church tradition, although it was rejected by the Catholics as a heresy.

At the highest level of world transcendence is hesychasm which culminates into the Vision of God.

Symposium on Enlightenment and Hesychasm - by Pr.

Fortescue saw Hesychasm, which Barlaam called superstitious and absurd, as a form of auto-suggestion.

Most likely, the rise of the term Hesychasm reflects the coming to the fore of this practice as something concrete and specific that can be discussed.

The word from which Hesychasm, a tradition of prayer in Eastern Orthodox Christianity is derived.

Under church tradition the practice of Hesychasm has it beginnings in the bible, Matthew 6:6 and the Philokalia.

Similarly, Kallistos Ware argues that it is important not to translate "hesychasm" as "quietism".

Between the 10th and 14th centuries, hesychasm was developed, particularly on Mount Athos in Greece, and continues to the present.

The Jesus Prayer is also often repeated as part of the meditative hesychasm practice in Eastern Christianity.

In the 1340s, he defended Hesychasm at three different synods in Constantinople and also wrote a number of works in its defense.

They curse Pope Honorius among the Monothelites, the opponents of Hesychasm.