Meanings
- uncountableChristianityThe beliefs and practices of the Palamites.
The last years of the empire witnessed in Palamism a great revival of mystical personal religion.
1949, English Historical Review, 64, p. 5051 more example
The victory of Palamism in the fourteenth century was therefore the victory of a specifically Christian, God-centered humanism for which the Greek patristic tradition always stood.
1974, John Meyendorff, Byzantine theology: historical trends and doctrinal themes, I. v., p. 78
Origin
From Palamite + -ism, a technical term in the field of Church history coined in the mid 20th century.
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