English Explanatory Dictionary

Hesychast controversy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A particular controversy concerning dogma in the 14th-century Byzantine Empire, over whether the idea of divine light was polytheistic, postulating two eternal substances, a visible and an invisible God.

Word forms

Hesychast controversy

Related words

Hesychasm
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