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  2. Gregory Palamas - Wikipedia

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    [10] [13] According to Meyendorff, Barlaam viewed "any claim of real and conscious experience of God as Messalianism". [14] [15] [16] Barlaam also took exception to the doctrine held by the hesychasts as to the uncreated nature of the light, the experience of which was said to be the goal of hesychast practice, regarding it as heretical and ...

  3. Christian mortalism - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to the two enigmatic references to Enoch and Elijah, there are ample references to the fact that death is the ultimate destiny for all human beings, that God has no contact with or power over the dead, and that the dead do not have any relationship with God (see, inter alia, Ps. 6:6, 30:9–10, 39:13–14, 49:6–13, 115:16–18 ...

  4. Catholic theology - Wikipedia

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    The traditional Eastern expression of the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary, for instance, is the Dormition of the Theotokos, which emphasizes her falling asleep to be later assumed into heaven. [178] The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is a teaching of Eastern origin, but is expressed in the terminology of the Western Church. [179]

  5. Munificentissimus Deus - Wikipedia

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    [6] Munificentissimus Deus reviews the history of Catholic liturgy and the many liturgical books "which deal with the feast either of the Dormition or of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin". [7] Munificentissimus Deus cites also the teaching of previous popes and bishops and such writers as John of Damascus , Francis de Sales , Robert ...

  6. Palamism - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] Further, the associated practice of hesychasm used to achieve theosis was characterized as "magic". [4] Eastern Orthodox theologians have criticized Western theology, and its traditional theory that God is pure actuality in particular, for its alleged incompatibility with the essence–energies distinction. [52] [53]

  7. Catholic moral theology - Wikipedia

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    Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics. Moral theology encompasses Catholic social teaching, Catholic medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. It can be distinguished as dealing with "how one is to act", in contrast ...

  8. Double truth - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine of "double truth" was revived by the scholastics under the rubric "two truths". Thus, according to the scholastics, there was a lesser truth, that the Earth circled the Sun, as Copernicus said, and a greater truth, that when Joshua fought at Jericho it was the Sun, not the Earth, which stood still.

  9. Hermeneutics of the Second Vatican Council - Wikipedia

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    This peculiarity can be derived from the intention of the Council itself, which was not to define "one point or another of doctrine and discipline" but to "re-establish in value and splendor the substance of human and Christian thought and life". [1]