Editing Jesus Prayer (section)

===Palamism, the underlying theology===
{{Main|Palamism}}
[[Image:Preobrazhenie.jpeg|thumb|[[Icon]] of the ''[[Transfiguration of Jesus]]'' by [[Theophanes the Greek]] (15th century, [[Tretyakov Gallery]], [[Moscow]]). Talking with Christ: [[Elijah]] (left) and [[Moses]] (right). Kneeling: [[Peter the Apostle|Peter]], [[James, son of Zebedee|James]], and [[John the Apostle|John]]]]
[[Apophatic theology|Apophatism]]<ref>Eastern Orthodox theology doesn't stand [[Thomas Aquinas]]' interpretation to the ''Mystycal theology'' of [[Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite]] (''modo sublimiori'' and ''modo significandi'', by which Aquinas unites positive and negative theologies, transforming the negative one into a correction of the positive one). Like pseudo-Denys, the Eastern Church remarks the [[antinomy]] between the two ways of talking about God and acknowledges the superiority of apophatism. Cf. Vladimir Lossky, op. cit., p. 55, [[Dumitru Stăniloae]], op. cit., pp. 261–262.</ref> (negative theology) is the main characteristic of the Eastern theological tradition. [[wikt:incognoscible|Incognoscibility]] is not conceived as [[agnosticism]] or refusal to know God, because the Eastern theology is not concerned with abstract concepts; it is contemplative, with a discourse on things above rational understanding. Therefore, dogmas are often expressed antinomically.<ref>{{in lang|ro}} [[Vladimir Lossky]], ''Teologia mistică a Bisericii de Răsărit'' (''The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church''), translation from [[French language|French]], Anastasia Ed., [[Bucharest]], 1993, pp. 36–37, 47–48, 55, 71. {{ISBN|973-95777-3-3}}.</ref> This form of contemplation is experience of God, [[lighting|illumination]], called the vision of God or, in Greek, [[theoria]].<ref>The Vision of God by [[Vladimir Lossky]] SVS Press, 1997. ({{ISBN|0-913836-19-2}})</ref>{{clarify|date=March 2019}}

For the Eastern Orthodox the knowledge or {{lang|el|[[wikt:noesis|noesis]]}} of the uncreated energies is usually linked to apophatism.<ref>{{in lang|ro}} [[Dumitru Stăniloae|Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae]], ''Ascetica şi mistica Biserici Ortodoxe'' (''Ascetics and Mystics of the Eastern Orthodox Church''), Institutul Biblic şi de Misiune al BOR ([[Romanian Orthodox Church]] Publishing House), 2002, p. 268, {{ISBN|0-913836-19-2}}.</ref><ref>Palmer, G. E. H., ''The Philokalia'', Vol. 4 {{ISBN|0-571-19382-X}}; Sherrard, Philip; Ware, Kallistos, ''On the Inner Nature of Things and on the Purification of the Intellect: One Hundred Texts'' [[Nikitas Stithatos]]</ref>