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... teach mystical knowledge by dia- lectic . He was countered by a hesychast monk and theologian , Gregory Palamas , but the latter's teaching on the mystic's vision of God was in turn denounced as unorthodox , as bringing the un- knowable ...
... teach mystical knowledge by dia- lectic . He was countered by a hesychast monk and theologian , Gregory Palamas , but the latter's teaching on the mystic's vision of God was in turn denounced as unorthodox , as bringing the un- knowable ...
Page 238
... teaching a boarding school , in literary and liturgical work , and in giving retreats and conferences . Placed here among pages discussing modern monastic stresses and distresses , the picture might seem to be a silent question - how ...
... teaching a boarding school , in literary and liturgical work , and in giving retreats and conferences . Placed here among pages discussing modern monastic stresses and distresses , the picture might seem to be a silent question - how ...
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... teaching and preaching to those without . In such conditions the Cistercians have remained success- fully within the monastic limits . Not all Benedictine houses have done so , or have aimed at doing so . There remain the occupations of ...
... teaching and preaching to those without . In such conditions the Cistercians have remained success- fully within the monastic limits . Not all Benedictine houses have done so , or have aimed at doing so . There remain the occupations of ...
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