Abstract
“The Unwaning Light”
The witness of Saints Symeon the New Theologian and Gregory Palamas
Protopresbyter Porphyrios Georgi
Two saints, Symeon the New Theologian and Gregory Palamas, played a crucial role in reviving Patristic theology during the period preceding the Great Captivity of Constantinople. Both monastic writers are known as the theologians of the Uncreated Light and they remain among the most prominent spokesmen for Orthodox theology until our times. Even though three hundred years separate them, one finds in the writings of Saint Gregory an organic continuity of Saint Symeon’s teaching. This text explores Palamas’ reception of the New Theologian’s theology and the continuity between the teachings of these two leading figures of Christian spirituality which results in shaping the self-consciousness of Hesychasm.
KEYWORDS: Hesychasme, Prayer, Uncreated Light, Eternal life, Christology, Reign of God, Divine Glory, Anthropology, Deification, Adoption.
