title: Epistemological and noological foundations of the doctrine of Barlaam of Calabria on the knowledge of God and the vision of the intellectual light
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metadata.value: Elimanov, Vadim E.
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metadata.value: 2024-05-08T14:37:46Z
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metadata.value: 2024-05-08T14:37:46Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Elimanov V. E. Epistemological and noological foundations of the doctrine of Barlaam of Calabria on the knowledge of God and the vision of the intellectual light. Issues of Theology, 2024, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 63–102. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2024.104 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2024.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45402
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metadata.value: The article proposes a new approach to the reconstruction of the doctrine of Barlaam
  of Calabria about the knowledge of God and the vision of the “intellectual
  light” on the basis of its epistemology and noology. In implementing this approach
  it was found that the basis of Barlaam’s teaching about the absolute unknowability
  of God is the epistemological principle: “like is known by like”. God, as completely
  alien to the created world, cannot be known by any of the cognitive abilities of man:
  neither by “perception”, nor by “opinion and reason”, nor by “mind”. The knowledge
  or vision of God Himself is in no way inaccessible to man. The knowledge of God
  is limited by the highest cognitive ability — the mind, its nature and the ability
  to contemplate intelligible concepts. Therefore the only thing available to man is contemplation (comprehension) in his mind of intellectual concepts (knowledge)
  about God. The mind, the concepts (knowledge) indwelling in the mind, and the
  act of thinking — all this is in relation to “dentity” to each other. In this noologically
  closed system of knowledge of God, the «intelligent light» is the mind that
  contemplates itself, and through this contemplates in itself all true knowledge about
  God. The knowledge of God and the vision of God are thus reduced by Barlaam
  to an intellectual act of self-knowledge. The article also examines the doctrine of
  Barlaam about the difference between intellectual light, Tabor light and supersubstantial
  light.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Issues of Theology;Volume 6; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Barlaam of Calabria
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gregory Palamas
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intellectual light
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tabor light
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: supersubstantial light
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: vision of God
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: logos
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: noology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Divine energies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: palamite controversy
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Epistemological and noological foundations of the doctrine of Barlaam of Calabria on the knowledge of God and the vision of the intellectual light
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