Original sentence: After the synodical decisions against him, Barlaam left Constantinople permanently and returned to Calabria, where he converted to Roman Catholicism and became Bishop of Gerace.Barlaam asserted the significance of philosophy (especially of Greek philosophy) for theology, believing that only through philosophy could humanity arrive at perfection.Born in what is now the commune of Seminara, Calabria, a Greek by ethnic descent and language, he was a member of the then buoyant and still extant Greek community of South Italy.From the Orthodox point of view, Barlaam did not fully appreciate the mystical-ascetical tradition of the East, and therefore he criticized it.He is one of the representatives of Byzantine Renaissance humanism.Latter he moved to Constantinople, where he soon gained entrance into ecclesiastical and political circles, especially those around the emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus, who gave him a teaching position at the university.This community had once been a part of the Byzantine Empire; Barlaam possessed a sentimental love for Orthodoxy, but had been trained in the theology and philosophy of the West
Edited sentence: Barlaam overestimated the significance of philosophy (especially of Greek philosophy) for theology, asserting that only through philosophy could humanity arrive at perfection.Barlaam possessed a sentimental love for Orthodoxy, but had been trained in the theology and philosophy of the West.Because of his Western theological presuppositions, Barlaam was not able to understand the mystical-ascetical tradition of the East, and therefore he criticized it.Born in Seminara commune, Calabria, a Greek by ethnic descent and language, he was a member of the then buoyant and still extant Greek community of South Italy.He is one of the representatives of Byzantine Humanism.He thus denied the renewing power of the Holy Spirit, which makes saints even out of uneducated people, as it made the fishermen apostles.Latter he moved to Constantinople, where he soon gained entrance into ecclesiastical and political circles, especially of the emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus, who gave him a teaching position at the university.This community had previously been a part of the Byzantine Empire but was forced by political circumstances to submit to Rome.Upon the synodical decisions against him, Barlaam left Constantinople permanently and returned to Calabria, where he converted to Roman Catholicism and became Bishop of Gerace