Barlaamite

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Barlaamite

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Supporting or pertaining to the theologian Barlaam of Seminara, especially his opposition to Hesychasm.
- 1788, Edward Gibbon, “Civil Wars and the Ruin of the Greek Empire. Part II”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
  […] but in the next age the question was forgotten; nor can I learn that the axe or the fagot were employed for the extirpation of the Barlaamite heresy.

Barlaamite (plural Barlaamites)

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An advocate of Barlaamite views, an opponent of Hesychasm.
- 1718, Isaac Sharpe, An Historical Account of the Rise and Growth of Heresie in the Christian Church […]‎^[1], page 121:
  At the End of the Age, arose the Question of Thaboretick Light, betwixt the Barlaamites and Palamites; which is agitated with great Heat in Synods, with Anathema's and biting Libels; as if they were striving for the chief Articles of Faith, and as if the whole of Religion consisted in such Trifles.
- 2012 October 15, Joseph Suaiden, “Your Editor Accused of Heresy on the “Orthodox-Tradition” Yahoo Group”, in NFTU‎^[2]:
  I have been accused repeatedly over the past eight hours of being a Barlaamite.