Barlaamite
English
Etymology
Barlaam + -ite
Adjective
Barlaamite
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) Supporting or pertaining to the theologian Barlaam of Seminara, especially his opposition to Hesychasm.
- 1788, Edward Gibbon, “Civil Wars and the Ruin of the Greek Empire. Part II”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], OCLC 995235880:
- […] but in the next age the question was forgotten; nor can I learn that the axe or the fagot were employed for the extirpation of the Barlaamite heresy.
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Noun
Barlaamite (plural Barlaamites)
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) An advocate of Barlaamite views, an opponent of Hesychasm.
- 1718, Isaac Sharpe, An Historical Account of the Rise and Growth of Heresie in the Christian Church […], page 121:
- At the End of the Age, arose the Question of Thaboretick Light, betwixt the Barlaamites and Palamites; which is agitated with great Heat in Synods, with Anathema's and biting Libels; as if they were striving for the chief Articles of Faith, and as if the whole of Religion consisted in such Trifles.
- 2012 October 15, Joseph Suaiden, “Your Editor Accused of Heresy on the “Orthodox-Tradition” Yahoo Group”, in NFTU:
- I have been accused repeatedly over the past eight hours of being a Barlaamite.
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