Познавањето и рационалноста во спорот помеѓу св. Григориј Палама и Варлаам

Abstract

The dispute between St. Gregory Palamas and Barlaam underlines the differences that existed in their time regarding the knowledge of God and the confession of Truth. On the one hand, St. Gregory Palamas stands firmly on the side of the centuries-old tradition of the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church, who claims that truth is founded and validated through the spiritual church experience. On the other side stands Barlaam, for whom knowledge and truth are sensitive things and can be known through reason and logic. Their dispute is still very relevant today in the dialogue between science and theology, where there are differences in the interpretation of the concepts of reason, truth and knowledge. As then (in the fourteenth century), so today opinions are divided and there are more or less convergences and divergences. Can the dispute between St. Gregory Palamas and Barlaam serve as model in the modern dialogue of theology with other sciences? How can this debate helps us to seek the truth? We believe that the dispute between St. Gregory Palamas and Barlaam of Calabria contains enough arguments that will help us to understand the knowledge of God and the knowledge of rationality from an Orthodox Christian perspective.