Barlaam of Seminara

southern Italian scholar and clergyman

1290 CE to 1348 CE

Barlaam of Seminara (Bernardo Massari, as a layman), ca.

1290-1348, or Barlaam of Calabria, is a southern Italian scholar (Aristotelian scholastic) and clergyman of the fouteenth century, as well as a Humanist, a philologist, and a theologian.

When Gregory Palamas defends Hesychasm (the Eastern Orthodox Church's mystical teaching on prayer), Barlaam accuses him of heresy.

Three Orthodox synods rule against him and in Palamas's favor (two "Councils of Sophia" in June and August 1341, and a "Council of Blachernae" in 1351).

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