AN ESSAY ON THE MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF THE EASTERN CHURCH
116
Ibid., col, 949 AC. St. Gregory Palamas undoubtedly has in mind a passage from St. Gregory of Nyssa "On the Constitution" of Man, Chapter XI: PG, vol. 44, col. 153-156.
117
There is nothing more hopeless than the simplistic concept of Divine simplicity. Fr. Sebastian Gichardin's book "The Problem of Divine Simplicity in the East and in the West in the XIV-XV Centuries. Gregory Palamas, Duns Scotus, Georgius Scholarius", published in Lyons in 1933, is a striking example of such theological insensitivity to the fundamental mysteries of the faith.
118
This passage is quoted by M. Jugie in the article "Palamas", "Diet. de theol. cathol.», XI, col. 1759 s.
119
St. Gregory Palamas. Physical Chapters...: PG. t. 150, col. 1209 C - 1212 A.
120
St. Gregory Palamas. Theophanes. PG, t 150, col. 929 A.
121
PG, t. 91, col. 1261-1264.
122
Decrees of the Council of 1341, Synopsis Nili. Mansi, Coil. concil., t. 25, col. 1149.
123
PG, t. 75, col. 1056 A.
124
PG, t. 35, col. 1164 A.
125
PG, t. 45, col. 1317 А.[Русск. пер.: Творения, ч. VII, с. 39.]
126
PG, vol. 36, col. 129 A. [Russian translation; Creations, part III, p. 180.]
127
PG, t. 7, col. 989 P. [Russian translation: Works of St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons. St. Petersburg, 1900, p. 331.]
128
PG, vol. 29, col. 605 B. [Russian translation: Creations, part III, p. 73.]
130
Ibid., col. 1337 B. [Russian translation, p. 400.]