[jo kus]

By the way, arguing that scholasticism is inferior to monasticism was the backbone of Palamas' victory over Barlaam. Eastern Fathers speak of "experiencing" God and not intellectually understanding Him or, worse, creating a partnership of sorts. Barlaam was a poor defender of Scholasticism. He was a Platonic humanist, an inferior version of St. Thomas Aquinas' school of thought. Experiencing God in contemplative prayer, knowing the unknoweable, is contact with God Himself, not just with a Hypostatis.

Regards

[kosta50]

Experiencing God in contemplative prayer, knowing the unknoweable, is contact with God Himself, not just with a Hypostatis

The Eastern Fathers would disagree. We experience God's uncreated energies, the uncreated Light of Tabor, not God's Essence. We are in His presence all the time, jo. His nature is beyond our reach.

[stripes1776]

Experiencing God in contemplative prayer, knowing the unknoweable, is contact with God Himself, not just with a Hypostatis.

It seems to me there is a contradiction in that statement. To speak of "God Himself" is to acknowledge God as Person and to affirm God as hypostasis. Personal pronouns require a person. So I am not sure what you are trying to say.