Barlaam of Calabria | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 30/12/2018

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00:00:42 1 Early life
00:01:07 2 Early career
00:03:01 2.1 Early conflict between Barlaam and Palamas
00:04:11 3 The Hesychast controversy
00:05:10 3.1 Barlaam's attack on Hesychasm
00:07:33 3.2 The Triads
00:10:23 3.3 Hesychast councils at Constantinople
00:11:49 4 Later career
00:12:20 5 Legacy
00:14:38 6 See also



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Barlaam of Seminara (Bernardo Massari, as a layman), c. 1290–1348, or Barlaam of Calabria (Greek: Βαρλαὰμ Καλαβρός) was a southern Italian scholar (Aristotelian scholastic) and clergyman of the 14th century, as well as a Humanist, a philologist, and a theologian. When Gregory Palamas defended Hesychasm (the Eastern Orthodox Church's mystical teaching on prayer), Barlaam accused him of heresy. Three Orthodox synods ruled against him and in Palamas's favor (two "Councils of Sophia" in June and August 1341, and a "Council of Blachernae" in 1351).