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===================From the book of georgorios palams…

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Philosophy and Salvation ==================It is not astonishing, therefore, to find out

that every year, on the first Sunday of Lent— also known as the "Sunday of Orthodoxy"—all
Byzantine Orthodox churches resounded with formal and repeated anathemas against "those
who follow the foolish opinions of the Hellenic disciplines" and particularly against those "who
considered the ideas of Plato as truly existing" or believe (with Aristotle) in the eternity of
matter. 17 =======================

====================These anathemas were first issued in the eleventh century on the

occasion of the condemnation of the philosopher John Italos, but their inclusion in the liturgical
Synodikon of the Sunday of Orthodoxy gave them permanent significance.
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=======================Clearly, however, Greek philosophical concepts were

inseparable from many aspects and formulations of the patristic tradition, which was the
common model and authority for all Byzantines. The repeated clashes between "humanists" who
tended to minimize the prohibitions against "Hellenic wisdom" and those theologians,
predominantly monastic, who insisted on the incompatibility between "Athens" and "Jerusalem"
(to use the old expression of Tertullian) could not solve the issue in a definite way.
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=========================Similarly, in the controversy between Barlaam and

Palamas, both sides acknowledged the authority of the Christian revelation and, on the other
hand, admitted that ancient philosophers possessed a certain natural ability to reach not only
created, but also divine truths. …………………………….What then separated them, and made the
debate appear essentially a debate on the relation between ancient philosophy and the Christian
experience? ========================

======================= If "knowledge", identified with secular education, is

necessary to know God, what is the meaning of Matthew 11:25 ("You have hidden these things
from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes,") or of the references, so frequent
in Palamas, 21 to Romans 1, or 1 Corinthians 1-2, about the "wisdom of this age" being "put to
shame"?==============================================

=====================Here I can express the teaching of Abba Gideon in liturgical

course, he said that without the Holy Spirit we cannot do nothing. Remember, the apostles, they
said even after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, when will you turn the government of is real,?,
even if they see many things, they said this, but they could remember, interpret, preach, teaches
after they received the holy spirit, this indicate that without the holy spirit, without re- borning
again from the holy spirit no do nothing. ============