Associations to the word «Hesychast»

Wiktionary

HESYCHAST, noun. (ecclesiastical history) A member of a school of quietist monks in fourteenth-century Greece and Byzantium.
HESYCHAST CONTROVERSY, proper noun. A particular controversy concerning dogma in the 14th century Byzantine Empire

Wise words

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