Tikhon Pino presented "The Logoi, the Divine Energies, and the Processions of Providence in St Gregory Palamas" for the inaugural 2022 Dionysius Circle Symposium.
ABSTRACT: It has become commonplace in the twentieth century to identify the divine ‘energies’ of St Gregory Palamas with both the divine processions of Dionysios and the logoi of St Maximos the Confessor. Yet how exactly does Palamas make use of such language within his own system? This presentation examines the language of procession (πρόοδος) and a possible doctrine of the logoi in St Gregory Palamas. Based on a comprehensive study of the essence-energies distinction across Gregory’s complete corpus, it argues that the term ‘procession,’ on its own, is not generically interchangeable with energeia. Rather, ῾procession῾ in Palamas is treated almost exclusively within the category of wisdom (σοφία) and providence (πρόνοια), so that proodos in God is always the procession(s) “of Goodness” or “of providence.” This is the category of God’s ‘going forth’ into created beings, a form of self-multiplication and distribution. As an eternal activity of God, this wisdom and providence has a noetic character, so that the divine processions are simultaneously the divine intellections and uncreated will(s) for all creatures. Yet the energies of wisdom, providence, and goodness do not exhaust the category of energeia. For Palamas, the procession(s) of God into and towards creatures is, rather, only one subset of an innumerable number of distinct divine energies and beginningless operations.
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