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GREGORIUS PALAMAS, METROPOLITAN OF THESSALONICA. CONTINUATION OF WORKS.
HOMILY XLIII, now published for the first time by the efforts of the most blessed and most holy Patriarch of Jerusalem, Lord Cyril. (Jerusalem, from the Press of the Holy Sepulcher, 1857).
HOMILY I. On maintaining peace with one another, delivered after the third day of Advent at Thessalonica. 9 HOM. II. On the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee; the parable. 17 HOM. III. On the Lord's parable concerning the salvation of the prodigal son. 31 HOM. IV. On the Gospel of the second coming of Christ, and on mercy and benevolence. 47 HOM. V. On the Presentation of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ; as also on chastity and its contrary vice. 63 HOM. VI. A hortatory homily of the same on fasting, in which the origin of the world is also briefly touched upon; it was delivered on the fourth day of the first week. 75 HOM. VII. Another on fasting. 87 HOM. VIII. On faith and the confession of faith. 93 HOM. IX. In time of fasting and prayer. 105 HOM. X. Delivered on the second Sunday of the Holy Forty Days, having as its subject the paralytic healed by the Lord in Capharnaum, and against those who converse with one another indecently in the sacred assemblies at church. 111 HOM. XI. On the glorious and life-giving Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. 123 HOM. XII. On the Gospel of the fourth Sunday of the Holy Forty Days, and on the necessity of being vigilant in one’s own thoughts. 145 HOM. XIII. On the fifth Sunday of the fasts, in which he also treats of almsgiving. 157 HOM. XIV. On the Annunciation of our immaculate Lady, the Mother of God and ever-virgin Mary. 165 HOM. XV. Delivered on Palm Sunday. 177 HOM. XVI. On the dispensation of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, and on the graces granted through it to those who truly believe in Him; and also why, when God could have liberated man from the tyranny of the demon in many ways, He preferred to use this dispensation. Which was delivered on the Holy and Great Sabbath. 189 HOM. XVII. In which the mystery of the Sabbath and the Lord's Day is shown; as also on the Gospel of the first Sunday after Easter. 219 HOM. XVIII. On the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing women, and that the Mother of God was the first to see the Lord alive from the dead. 255 HOM. XIX. On the Gospel of the Samaritan woman, and that one ought to contemn present things. 267 HOM. XX. On the eighth matins Gospel according to John, in which is also [spoken] of the great charisms which those who persevere piously in the sacred synaxes until the end are deemed worthy to receive. 283 HOM. XXI. On the Ascension of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, in which it is shown how the legal Sabbath was fulfilled. 275 HOM. XXII. On the same feast; in which [he speaks] also of vices and virtues. 285 HOM. XXIII. On the tenth matins Gospel; and on the war, both sensible and spiritual, to be waged against our adversary. 297 HOM. XXIV. On the manifestation and dispensation of the divine Spirit accomplished at Pentecost; it also treats of repentance. 307 HOM. XXV. Delivered on the Sunday of All Saints. 319 HOM. XXVI. Delivered at harvest time; where [it treats] of the spiritual harvest. 351 HOM. XXVII. Delivered also at harvest time; where [it treats] of the spiritual harvest that is to be ours in the future. 351 HOM. XXVIII. On the feast of the holy and chief apostles Peter and Paul. 355 HOM. XXIX. On the healing of the paralytic in Capharnaum according to the evangelist Matthew; and on sorrow according to God. 363 HOM. XXX. On the blind men who received their sight in the house according to Matthew, and that faith is not true which is without the works of repentance. 375 HOM. XXXI. Delivered in a public supplication on the first day of August. 387 HOM. XXXII. A homily of the same on the Gospel of the eleventh Sunday, according to Matthew; in which also [he speaks] of temptations. 401 HOM. XXXIII. On the virtues and the passions opposed to them. And that the world, whose prince is the devil, is not a creation of God, but [serves as a trap for] those who, having spurned the creatures, serve him. Delivered in a public supplication. 411 HOM. XXXIV. On the venerable transformation of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ; where it is proven that the light in it is uncreated. 423 HOM. XXXV. On the same venerable transformation of the Lord; in which it is proven that, although that most divine light of His is uncreated, it is not, however, God’s essence. 433 HOM. XXXVI. On the Gospel of the eleventh Sunday, [by] Matthew the evangelist, having for its subject the parable saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts"; and in which, moreover, [he speaks] of patience and mercy. 419 HOM. XXXVII. On the most holy Dormition of our most pure Lady, the Mother of God and ever-virgin Mary. 459 HOM. XXXVIII. On the first Matins. That divine baptism does not suffice for saving a man, unless he strives to keep the divine commandments. 473 HOM. XXXIX. Delivered in a public supplication which was made on account of the unusual plague of death then raging everywhere. 483 HOM. XL. On the venerable forerunner of Christ, John the Baptist. 493 HOM. XLI. On the Gospel according to Matthew of the fourteenth Sunday; on the parable inviting to the wedding of the son; in which also those who say are refuted: "Why did God call those who in no way, or at least not by their works, were going to obey? And why did He make those who are to be delivered to punishments?" 513 HOM. XLII. On the Gospel according to Luke read on the third Sunday; in which [it treats] of the widow’s son raised by the Lord, and that we ought to pursue one another with mutual charity and indulgence. 525 HOM. XLIII. On the great martyr, wonderworker, and myrrh-streamer among the saints, Demetrius. 533
Monuments which pertain to the life and tenets of Gregory Palamas, to which is prefixed the Editor of the Patrologia’s Monitum. 551 Encomium of Palamas by Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople, prefixed to the Jerusalem edition of the Homilies. 551 Panegyric of Gregory Palamas by the same Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople, from the same edition. 653 Three Synodical Tomes in the cause of the Palamites. 655 III. Tome against the Barlaamites and Acindynians. 679 Confession of faith of Gregory Palamas. 695 Relation of the pontiffs to Anna Palaeologina. 717 Rescript of John Cantacuzenus confirming the synodical sentence passed against John Calecas. 767 Books of Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople, against the anti-rhetor Gregory (these are what Boivin frequently mentions in his notes to the Byzantine History of Gregory, as being unpublished; for he was entirely ignorant of the Iassus edition of the year 1638, which we use). 773 Two sermons by which they who follow the parties of Acindynus attack the orthodox; of which the first is concerning a certain saying of St. Basil, the second concerning the Taboric light. 1139 EPILOGUE. 1169
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GREGORIUS ACINDYNUS MONK AND THEOLOGIAN. Historical account. 1187 TWO BOOKS OF GREGORIUS ACINDYNUS ON ESSENCE AND OPERATION. Written formerly against the ignorance of certain Greeks, but now published in Greek against the Calvinist ignorance of Conrad Vorstius and the Vorstians. Edited by Jacob Gretser, theologian of the Society of Jesus. Jacob Gretser's preface. 1189 BOOK ONE. A Cap. I. That the confusion of the various senses of operation is the reason why one can neither orderly nor rightly discuss the present question. 1191 Cap. II. On the division and order of the books of this work. 1193 Cap. III. That in God there is no passive potency. 1197 CAP. IV. That the essence of God is His being. 1201 CAP. V. The objections of the adversaries and their solutions together with the proposition. 1205 CAP. VI. That God is not matter. 1209 Cap. VII. Objections of the adversaries against our proposition, and solutions to them showing that there is no matter in God. 1211 Response. 1215 CAP. VIII. Conclusion of the first book. 1217 BOOK TWO. CAP. I. Prologue of the second book. That it is fitting to set forth the operations perfecting the being itself before other operations which are perfecting of exterior effects. 1219 Cap. II. That in God there is no sense. 1221 Cap. III. That God is intelligent. 1221 Cap. IV. That God is willing. 1227 Caput V. That there is an intelligent and willing power in God. 1235 CAP. VI. That habits are attributed to those responding to these operations. 1239 CAP. VII. That such operations and the habits and powers corresponding to them are one and the same in God. 1241 ON THE HERESIES OF GREGORY PALAMAS. 1243 EPISTLES AND ADHORTATORY VERSES TO NICEPHORUS GREGORAS. 1243
BARLAAM OF SEMINARIA. Historical account from the Calabrian library of Ang. Zavarroni. 1245 Another account, from Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, ed. Harles, vol. XI. 1247 EPISTLES OF BARLAAM on the union of the Roman Church and the procession of the Holy Spirit, for the Latins; to which epistles, so that the versatile genius of the man may be known, we have added those things which he wrote in the book On the Primacy of the Pope against the same. 1255 Epistle of Lord Barlaam, bishop, to his friends situated in Greece concerning the union of the most holy Roman Church. 1255 Of the same Lord Barlaam, bishop, to the same Greek friends, both concerning the primacy of the Roman Church and the procession of the Holy Spirit. 1271 Epistle of Alexius Calochetus to Lord Barlaam, bishop of Gerace, asking him for a translation of certain Latin books for the sake of union. 1281 Epistle of the most wise and learned man Demetrius of Thessalonica to the same Lord Barlaam, bishop of Gerace: in which, setting forth all his doubts concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit, he asks to be taught by what means he was led to believe that the Holy Spirit also proceeds from the Son. 1283 Epistle of Barlaam to the same Demetrius of Thessalonica, responding to the requests; he exhorts him to the union of the most holy Roman Church. 1301 Epistle of the same Barlaam to Alexius Calochetus, in which he shows that Greeks not obedient to the Roman Church are not only schismatics, but even heretics. 1309 Proof by Holy Scripture of the same Barlaam, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son, just as He does from the Father. 1313 BARLAAM'S ORATION FOR UNION, delivered at Avignon before Pope Benedict XII. 1331
ETHICS ACCORDING TO THE STOICS, by Lord Barlaam of Seminaria, bishop of Gerace, composed in a compendium from many volumes of the same Stoics. 1311 FIRST PART. CAP. I. What beatitude is called. 1341 CAP. II. True beatitude of man, as he is man. 1341 CAP. III. True beatitude cannot be increased. 1343 CAP. IV. Of what things the beatitude of man, as he is man, chiefly consists. 1343 CAP. V. What is the true beatitude of man, and what is misery. 1343 CAP. VI. What virtue is. 1343 CAP. VII. From the beatitude of man, as he is man, all arts are excluded. 1343 CAP. VIII. In what things the true beatitude of man, as he is man, is chiefly situated. 1343 CAP. IX. Science is least of all to be placed in the goods of man. 1345 Cap. X. What is common to humans and beasts is not to be placed in the goods of man, as he is man. 1345 CAP. XI. Definition of the most miserable, or who is truly called miserable. 1345 Cap. XII. What are to be judged as justly held in the goods of man. 1345 Cap. XIII. External bodily goods do not pertain to the beatitude of man, as he is man. 1345 CAP. XIV. What things are included in the form of beatitude. 1345 CAP. XV. Whether the second and third, which are called forms of beatitude, ought to be included. 1345 CAP. XVI. What sort of man the blessed one ought to be. 1345 CAP. XVII. What beatitude contains in itself. 1345 CAP. XVIII. Whether the second and third are necessary for perfect beatitude. 1347 CAP. XIX. Comparison of two who are not blessed. 1347 CAP. XX. Which acquisition of virtues is more difficult. 1347 CAP. XXI. Which is stronger in the acquisition of virtues. 1347 CAP. XXII. In what things the action of virtues chiefly consists. 1347 CAP. XXIII. Division of bodily goods, and what are called external. 1349 CAP. XXIV. Concerning the first member. 1349 CAP. XXV. Concerning the second member. Freedom from pain and pleasure, not beatitude. 1349 CAP. XXVI. Concerning goods and advantages which turn out in three ways. 1351 CAP. XXVII. Division of inconveniences. 1351 Cap. XXVIII. Advantage coming from virtue is desirable, and why. 1351 CAP. XXIX. Not advantages, but the affections toward them make for beatitude or misery. 1351 CAP. XXX. What is the honorable. 1351 CAP. XXXI. What is the useful, and the useless. 1351 CAP. XXXII. There is no blessed one in this life, according to the Platonists. 1353 CAP. XXXIII. Division of beatitude. 1353 CAP. XXXIV. Natural goods, how they are perfected in us. 1353 SECOND PART. 1353 CAP. I. How manifold is the force of the soul. 1355 CAP. II. Concerning the true and false opinion of good and evil. 1355 CAP. III. How manifold is the harmful will. 1355 Cap. IV. How manifold is the beneficial will. 1355 CAP. V. Whether the three things aforesaid, true judgment, equanimity of mind, and beneficial will can concur together in the soul or appetitive power. 1355 CAP. VI. The seven complexions of the aforementioned. 1357 CAP. VII. Concerning perturbations; and what are called perturbations. 1357 CAP. VIII. The remaining three complexions, for what they are useful. 1357 CAP. IX. Division of perturbations. 1357 CAP. X. Another division of the same. 1357 CAP. XI. Definition of perturbations. 1357 CAP. XII. What is constancy. 1359 CAP. XIII. Difference between perturbations and constancies. 1359 CAP. XIV. Double question concerning the perturbation of Theophrastus. 1363 CAP. XV. Whether perturbation is to be plucked out entirely. 1363 CAP. XVI. Whether perturbations can be rooted out. 1363
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