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The Eastern reception of Aquinas in the fifteenth century was determined by the theological repercussions that occurred in Byzantium in the preceding century, namely the association of Thomism with Barlaamism and Akindynism (the denial of a real distinction between God’s essence and energies or of God’s having energies at all), the use of Aristotle’s syllogistic theory in establishing the Filioque, and the vision of God’s essence in statu patriae. Nevertheless, Aquinas’ two Summae were used and tacitly excerpted (in the translations of the brothers Kydones) by Palamite theologians for settling other theological matters, whereas there was an open vindication of Aquinas both as a philosopher and as a reliable guide in the exposition of the Scriptures by George Scholarios (Patriarch Gennadios II). |
