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Hesychasm

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Hesychasm
the quietistic practices of a 14th-century ascetic sect of mystics drawn from the monks of Mt. Athos. Also called Palamitism. — hesychast, n. — hesychastic, adj.
See also: Eastern Orthodoxy


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It is obvious in which camp the Russian mystical traditions of hesychasm and kenoticism--quietist submissiveness--belong.
The constraints of Russian culture by Ragsdale, Hugh / The National Interest
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