Hesychasm in the Culture of Muscovite Rus` in 14th–15th Centuries
Journal: Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures]
Year: 2022

The “hesychast disputes” that unfolded in Byzantium and influenced other Orthodox countries came to be the critical event of the 14th century for the Christian world. The doctrine of synergy, the theory of the “deification” (“theosis”) of a person and the metaphysics of light, developed by the hesychast Gregory Palamas, were creatively reworked in the consciousness of Muscovite Rus’ in the 14th–15th centuries. As a result, the original Old Russian Hesychasm emerged, transforming the doctrine of