Luca Benzo is currently a Research Associate at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nanzan University, Japan. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, as well as Master's Degrees in Theology and Philosophy from the Catholic Institute of Paris. Since 2022 he has been serving as a missionary priest in Japan.

• Acknowledgments - Introduction - Chapter 1 About the problem - 1.1 The notion of antinomy - 1.2 Cataphatic way and apophatic way - 1.3 The Orthodox and Latin reception of Palamism and the “neo-Palamism” - 1.4 Limits of neo-Thomistic apologetics - 1.5 The Palamite controversy as a meta-problem: a range of interpretive paradigms - Chapter 2 Greek patristics - 2.1 Vision of God - 2.2 Fundamental Dualities in Patristic Thought - 2.3 The Thought of Pseudo-Dionysius - 2.4 The Thought of Maximus the Confessor - 2.5 Apophaticism and Patristic Themes - Chapter 3 Gregory Palamas - 3.A On the origin of the problem - 3.B Palamas’ Apodictic Treatises, the Filioque problem and the essence-energies distinction - 3.1 Epistolary Exchanges Between Palamas and Barlaam - 3.2 The Articulation Between Cataphatic and Apophatic Theology in Palamas’ Thought - 3.3 The Essence-energies Distinction in Palamas’ Doctrine - 3.4 The Palamite Identification Between Energeiai and Logoi - 3.5 Personal Distinction and Energy Distinction - Conclusion - Bibliography

Luca Benzo is currently a Research Associate at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nanzan University, Japan. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, as well as Master's Degrees in Theology and Philosophy from the Catholic Institute of Paris. Since 2022 he has been serving as a missionary priest in Japan.

• Acknowledgments - Introduction - Chapter 1 About the problem - 1.1 The notion of antinomy - 1.2 Cataphatic way and apophatic way - 1.3 The Orthodox and Latin reception of Palamism and the “neo-Palamism” - 1.4 Limits of neo-Thomistic apologetics - 1.5 The Palamite controversy as a meta-problem: a range of interpretive paradigms - Chapter 2 Greek patristics - 2.1 Vision of God - 2.2 Fundamental Dualities in Patristic Thought - 2.3 The Thought of Pseudo-Dionysius - 2.4 The Thought of Maximus the Confessor - 2.5 Apophaticism and Patristic Themes - Chapter 3 Gregory Palamas - 3.A On the origin of the problem - 3.B Palamas’ Apodictic Treatises, the Filioque problem and the essence-energies distinction - 3.1 Epistolary Exchanges Between Palamas and Barlaam - 3.2 The Articulation Between Cataphatic and Apophatic Theology in Palamas’ Thought - 3.3 The Essence-energies Distinction in Palamas’ Doctrine - 3.4 The Palamite Identification Between Energeiai and Logoi - 3.5 Personal Distinction and Energy Distinction - Conclusion - Bibliography

Luca Benzo is currently a Research Associate at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nanzan University, Japan. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, as well as Master's Degrees in Theology and Philosophy from the Catholic Institute of Paris. Since 2022 he has been serving as a missionary priest in Japan.

• Acknowledgments - Introduction - Chapter 1 About the problem - 1.1 The notion of antinomy - 1.2 Cataphatic way and apophatic way - 1.3 The Orthodox and Latin reception of Palamism and the “neo-Palamism” - 1.4 Limits of neo-Thomistic apologetics - 1.5 The Palamite controversy as a meta-problem: a range of interpretive paradigms - Chapter 2 Greek patristics - 2.1 Vision of God - 2.2 Fundamental Dualities in Patristic Thought - 2.3 The Thought of Pseudo-Dionysius - 2.4 The Thought of Maximus the Confessor - 2.5 Apophaticism and Patristic Themes - Chapter 3 Gregory Palamas - 3.A On the origin of the problem - 3.B Palamas’ Apodictic Treatises, the Filioque problem and the essence-energies distinction - 3.1 Epistolary Exchanges Between Palamas and Barlaam - 3.2 The Articulation Between Cataphatic and Apophatic Theology in Palamas’ Thought - 3.3 The Essence-energies Distinction in Palamas’ Doctrine - 3.4 The Palamite Identification Between Energeiai and Logoi - 3.5 Personal Distinction and Energy Distinction - Conclusion - Bibliography