The Uncreated Light
The radiance that blazed from Christ on the mountain, glimpsed again by praying saints
The Uncreated Light is the divine glory said to have shone from Christ at the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, which, in the Eastern tradition, certain saints come to experience in prayer. Symeon the New Theologian and Gregory Palamas treated it as God's own uncreated energy, truly God and not a created glow. This understanding is central to Eastern hesychast theology and is not framed this way in the Western traditions.
How it traveled
- 2 CorinthiansPhilippi · 67explains
- Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. JohnHippo Regius · 430explains
- City of GodHippo Regius · 430explains
- Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)Paris · 1274explains
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three PartsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Five Sermons. On Different OccasionsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Seventeen Occasional SermonsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
Key passages(20)
Five Sermons. On Different Occasions · Jonathan Edwards
Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26]) · Thomas Aquinas
Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
City of God · Augustine of Hippo
The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great · Pope Leo the Great
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
Exegetical Fragments. · Dionysius of Alexandria
Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John · Augustine of Hippo
Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
Expositions on the Book of Psalms · Augustine of Hippo
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John · Victorinus
Ephraim Syrus: The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith · Ephrem the Syrian
Homilies on Second Corinthians · John Chrysostom
Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John · Augustine of Hippo
Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John · Augustine of Hippo