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The Triads

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$70.00
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ISBN:
978-0-88141-726-5
Author:
St. Gregory Palamas
Translator:
Alexander R. Titus
Published:
2025
Format:
Cloth hardcover with sewn signatures
Pages:
818
Trim size:
6x9
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The Triads, PPS LW 1
 
St. Gregory Palamas
Translator: Alexander R. Titus
818 pp
978-0-88141-726-5
Format: Cloth hardcover with sewn signatures
 
 
St. Gregory Palamas wrote the Triads, the foremost of his many theological works, to refute Barlaam the Calabrian's attacks upon the spiritual practices of the Athonite monks. The Triads constitute the apex of late Byzantine theology, serving to tie together many strands of thought from earlier Church Fathers into a remarkable synthesis of what it means for man to know God and how this knowledge is obtained. Above all, Palamas is at pains to prove to the reader that salvation is not a human reality but rather one that takes man beyond himself and the limits human nature imposes upon him. At the core of the Triads lies St. Gregory's insistence that man can truly participate in the life of God even during the course of this earthly life and that this participation is a transfiguration of the whole man—body, soul, and mind.
 
This translation by Alexander Titus is published alongside the original Greek text of Palamas as the first volume of the new Popular Patristics Series: Longer Works. An extension of the Popular Patristics Series, this new series is meant to bring to readers major texts from the patristic tradition that are too long to fit in the original Popular Patristics format. The Longer Works are indispensable reading for anyone interested in the history and development of Orthodox theology or the Christian patristic tradition.
 
About the translator: Alexander R. Titus is an independent scholar and educator living in western Oregon. He received his doctorate in Church History from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he wrote his dissertation on Palamas’ reception of the Dionysian corpus in the Triads.

3 Reviews

  • 5
    Amazing book!

    Posted by Caden on 12th Feb 2026

    This Greek/English edition of Saint Gregory Palamas' Triads is an absolute must have for anyone seeking to delve deeper into authentic byzantine mysticism.

    On top of it's wonderful contents, the book itself is high quality. All around it's simply a great product!

  • 5
    The Triads, by St. Gregory Palamas

    Posted by Unknown on 17th Dec 2025

    This work is a compendium of Patristic wisdom summarizing and delivering the core of the Christian Tradition, namely, the experience of God the Holy Trinity unto salvation. Importantly, The Triads demonstrates the authentic way of theology - hesychasm (purification of the heart through prayer) - contra the false way of scholasticism (discursive reason) which defines non-Orthodox spiritualities.

  • 5
    The Triads

    Posted by AJ on 9th Dec 2025

    Book looks great, love how it has both Greek and English, love the hardcover, and love the notes next to the text about where in scripture Saint Gregory is pulling some of these quotes from, can't wait to read it!!

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