My Favorite Orthodox Book: The Triads by St. Gregory Palamas 

Great find

Terrible that they would leave out things just because they don't agree with them.

I’m so glad I found your video to cop the book God bless 🗿

You also might be interested in this book that I just did a review about: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XmXFt5YGs0c.html

My godson, just the other day, said I look like St. Gregory Palamas 😉

Thanks man! I might do a video at some time, but I need to reread the Triads and take a lot of notes in order to do that video.

Mostly the Canon M50 although I do use a Canon EOSM with Magic Lantern, the only problem is that my computer isn't really powerfull enough to use the RAW video put out by the Canon EOSM. If you are interested in tech/camera help feel free to ask questions.

Also I'm glad you like the video. It's too bad that they don't have the book on Amazon or I would have bought it when it first came out as well as other people knowing that the book exists.

Apparently Fr. Meyendorff's book was the complete Greek text with a French translation. The introduction of this translation mentions that this is the first complete translation of the 1962 critical edition by Professor Panagiotis Chrestou.

That's interesting. It's a really important distinction. If grace and the glory that we receive is created, then there is an unbridgeable gap between humanity and God. Also it doesn't make sense that the Glory of God would be a lesser created thing than God Himself.

​@@NepticFathersactually if the Glory is created no glorification no salvation. ,nothing created can save. Those that say the energies of God are some created forms when they operate ,actually they deny salvation.

@@ΓραικοςΕλληνας Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;". If grace is created then there is also the problem you mentioned, where we would be saved by a created intermediator. Orthodox teaching is that grace is uncreated and is God's energy operating in us.

@@NepticFathers correct brother .Also the most important is that heaven and hell in holy orthodoxy is actually God himself. Not that heretic belief that hell supposed is some created fires and flames

@@ΓραικοςΕλληνας I don't think we would say that Hell is God himself but the experience of Him or lack of Him in a soul who has rejected Him. I tend to think Hell is the experience of the soul who has blinded themselves to God and that blindness and loneliness creates the Hell. I tend to think of Hell as the endless descent into chaos and nonbeing and getting worse and worse. I really haven't gotten into all the view of Orthodoxy and Hell though and haven't really looked at it in depth.

The link was broken. I updated the link. They still have softcovers.

newfoundpublishing.com/product/the-triads/

@@NepticFathers awesome, thank you!

@@NepticFathersI just found your channel and got the book. Thank you very much

I have a number of collections, but I haven't started reading them yet unless you count the synaxarions, which I've only read parts of those.

Yes, and it is still completely relevant to today as some of Barlaam's views are still held in Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. St. Gregory Palamas intentionally mentions some of the false doctrines of the Latins in this book.

Yes, the distinction is real and not just a construct for human language.

Are you wanting just general writing in Orthodoxy or specifically related to St. Gregory Palamas/the Triads/Hesychasm?

@@NepticFathers .. i think i have a few on the radar for general, so I guess a couple more influential guys of the past/key writings then, kind of like Augustine & Aquinas is to RC or Luther and Calvin is to Protestant.

@@d.c.sodyssey4783 For Orthodoxy there isn't really one or two guys our Theology is shaped by. It's the whole amount of our Church Fathers. A good place to start could be the writings of saints that are included in the Popular Patristics series by SVS Press, then either get those books or the translations in the Public Domain. So a book like "On the Incarnation, " by St. Athanasius, could be a good place to start.

You should still be able to buy a paperback.

newfoundpublishing.com/product/the-triads/

Hopefully they will make some more in the future or go print on demand.

I've been using that St. Gregory Palamas facial scrub and facial mask to really nail down the look ;)

You obviously don't have any understanding of the above quote. God as creator happened at a specific point in time; God did not create eternally. The energy of God as creator although being uncreated did have a beginning in time because the act of creation started in time. If you had quoted or read the sentences after this, St. Gregory explained what he meant. You don't understand what he says because you believe in Absolute Divine Simplicity, borrowed from philosophers.

@@NepticFathers You don't know what you're talking about. Palamas teaches that the "divine energies" are God, and that they can have a beginning, as the quote cited shows. To deny that would be to lie. No part of God has a beginning. Got it? He also teaches that the "divine energies" (which, according to Palamas are God) are many. That's another blasphemy, as it denies the oneness of God and attempts to divide God into parts. That's shown in the video, among other things. What you attribute to "philosophers" is taught in sacred scripture. You won't save your soul in "Orthodoxy", as adhering to Palamas' heretical, inventive and contradictory nonsense denies basic teachings of Christianity. Also, if you condemn Absolute Divine Simplicity, then you'd have to condemn St. Irenaeus, one of the greatest early church theologians, who taught the same, as even the Eastern "Orthodox" admit.

I hope they do reprints. I stocked up while I could, and got some extras for friends. We need this book to sell out and have a high demand, and possibly do a digital edition. I never thought about it but a lot of the viewers in other countries can't even get the books that I talk about without paying three or four times more for the book with the extra shipping costs.

I sent an email to see if they have plans on reprinting the hardback.

Good. Maybe I'll have to get the hard cover, too, lol.