Palamiten.adj.

1853 C. Anthon Man. Greek Lit. 560 Owing to the controversy between the Palamites and Acindynites, he was confined in a convent by the Patriarch in 1351.

1877 J. M'Clintock & J. Strong Cycl. Biblical, Theol., & Eccl. Lit. VII. 547/2 The peculiar leading tenets of the Palamites were the existence of the mystical light discovered by the more eminent monks and recluses in their long exercises of abstract contemplation and prayer, and the uncreated nature of the light of Mount Tabor seen at the transfiguration of Christ.

1900 ‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe vi. 252 The quarrel between the Palamites and Barlaamites, after distracting the Eastern Church, was at last settled by a Synod in a sense favourable to the former.

1949 E. L. Mascall Existence & Analogy vi. 151 For the Thomist, supernatural grace means a communication of God himself to the creature... For the Palamite, it means a communication of the uncreated energy of God though not of his uncommunicable essence.

1987 Speculum 62 519 Some important figures of the Palaiologan era included in this fascicle are the Palamite Theodore Meliteniotes [etc.].

1877 J. M'Clintock & J. Strong Cycl. Biblical, Theol., & Eccl. Lit. VII. 548/1 These alleged heresies were, however, mostly..the inferences deduced by Nicephorus Gregoras and other opponents from the Palamite dogma of uncreated light, and not the acknowledged tenets of the Palamite party.

1949 E. L. Mascall Existence & Analogy iii. 151 In the Palamite theory, God gives himself in only one way, in both nature and grace; he gives himself in his energies.

1961 Times 24 Nov. 14/4 Moghila did not admit the Palamite doctrine of energies.

1993 Speculum 68 806 Prochoros was directly involved in the Palamite controversy on Mount Athos, where he was a monk of the Great Lavra and became an opponent of the dominant Palamite group.