Fighting the Soulless Scholasticism of the West

On the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas, we remember his defense of hesychasm and the ability of the faithful to experience God directly in his energies. In this week's homily, Bp. Irineos argues that this direct engagement with the divine is the bulwark against secular atheism and that the west's abandonment of Christian culture stems directly from its rejection of the Palamite teachings and its embrace of a scholastic approach to God.