Skip to content
Unitive Knowledge Society
Search

Accents are optional; quotes find an exact phrase.

Primary source, translation

Gregory Palamas: The Triads

By Gregory Palamas

Translated by Nicholas Gendle

Edited by John Meyendorff

Paulist Press, New York, 1983, Classics of Western Spirituality

First written 1338–1341

About this text

A translation of selections from Palamas’s Triads in Defence of the Holy Hesychasts, his answer to Barlaam on the method of prayer, the uncreated light, and the distinction between God’s essence and energies.

How to cite

Gregory Palamas. Gregory Palamas: The Triads. Edited by John Meyendorff. Translated by Nicholas Gendle. Classics of Western Spirituality. Paulist Press, New York, 1983.

Primary sources in our source protocol.

In the book catalogue

A major work of

Cite this entry
Chicago (bibliography)

“Gregory Palamas: The Triads.” Source. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society. Last modified November 7, 2026. https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/sources/triads-gendle.

Chicago (note)

“Gregory Palamas: The Triads,” source, The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, last modified November 7, 2026, https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/sources/triads-gendle.

MLA

“Gregory Palamas: The Triads.” The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, 7 Nov. 2026, www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/sources/triads-gendle.

BibTeX
@misc{sources-triads-gendle,
  title = {{Gregory Palamas: The Triads}},
  howpublished = {The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society},
  note = {Source. Last modified November 7, 2026},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/sources/triads-gendle}
}