ABSTRACT
The group of émigré theologians of the period following the Russian revolution that came to be known as the neo-Palamist school made a significant conquest in their discovery of an ‘existentialistic emphasis’ in the writings of St Gregory Palamas (1296–1359), ‘the Thomas of the East’. One of the principal architects of this school may be said to have been Vladimir Lossky (1903–58), who was undoubtedly one of the most significant Orthodox theologians of the twentieth century. He became known above all as a major interpreter of Palamas’ theology and a representative of the Eastern personalist doctrines.
