Essence and Energies
How God can be both unknowable and known
This exploration is coming soon. It will cover Gregory Palamas's essence-energies distinction and its implications for understanding the possibility of genuine encounter with God.
The exploration will examine the distinction in detail — what it means, what it does not mean, and why it matters — and will address the objections that have been raised against it by both Eastern and Western theologians. Most importantly, it will ask what difference this theological distinction makes to the practitioner: how understanding the energies as genuinely divine changes one's relationship to the experiences of prayer, to moments of grace, and to the ongoing life of the spiritual seeker.