Passions and Virtues According to Saint Gregory Palamas
Description
St. Gregory Palamas bases his teaching on the passions and virtues on the basic theological distinction between human life that is according to nature and that life which is contrary to nature. Passions do not belong to human nature. They are impulses and actions foreign to the natural life of man. The passions are states where man moves in a world that is contrary to nature. Palamas characterizes passions as 'deceitful desires'. However, when the soul moves according to nature, one's desiring ability, which is a basic faculty of the soul, becomes an ardent longing for God, i...
ISBN(s)
1878997750, 9781878997753
