This is so to the point! Don't we all see the futility in such a 'nailing down' of the un-nailable. How arrogant of all of us (St Palamas and Aquinas and the rest of us) to try to 'put asunder what God has joined'. It was love that brought the uncreated to incarnate. It is love that joins to the point of union. Union doesn't mean 'like' it means ONE. At which point in your breathing do you go from in breath to outbreath? How far to the right do I have to go to get away from the left? Objective reality is subjective (to us) and Subjective reality is an objective truth. At what point does God's essence differentiate into His energies? At what point do my wife and I cease to be one flesh? The moment the love stops. What an embarrasing event for Christians to actually separate into camps over whether grace is created or uncreated. We're,(as Christians), more concerned with pinning the butterfly to the right board than in experiencing it's beauty as it flys and eludes us. We would rather have 'theological fencing' then laying down our life for our brother. (Me especially!) Us created little lumps of clay can never claim to nail down how God works. This is only a subtle way of playing God. If I close you out of my heart (schism- stay divided) because you believe in sanctifying or created grace when I believe in uncreated grace than I think we better review Christianiy chapter one again. Having said all that I would say that RCs are big in the put it in a box and file it kind of Theology (I'm RC)while the east is more feminine and centrifugal in it's way. (You see what nice boxes I've got everyone in???) I think Palamas debating with Barlaam is like arguing with a woman (I have tremendous love and respect for women, my mother was one and so is my wife...) He would have said more if he invited him to live on Athos for a year and let him see for himself. God bless you all.
