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CABASILAS, NICOLAUS (d. 1371)

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CABASILAS, NICOLAUS (d. 1371) , See also:Byzantine mystic and theological writer. He was on intimate terms with the See also:emperor See also:John VI. Cantacuzene, whom he accompanied in his retirement to a monastery. In 1355 he succeeded 'his See also:uncle Nilus Cabasilas, like himself a determined opponent of the See also:union of the See also:Greek and Latin churches, as See also:archbishop of Thessalonica. In the Hesythast controversy he took the See also:side of the monks of See also:Athos, but refused to agree to the theory of the uncreated See also:light. His See also:chief See also:work is his IIEpi T97S EY X purrs W?]S (ed. pr. of the Greek See also:text, with copious introduction, by W. Gass, 1849; new ed. by M. Heinze, 1899), in which he See also:lays down the principle that union with See also:Christ is effected by the three See also:great mysteries of See also:baptism, See also:confirmation and the See also:eucharist. He also wrote homilies on various subjects, and a speech againt usurers, printed with other See also:works in See also:Migne, Patrologia Graeca, c. i. A large number of his works is still extant in MS. See C.

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Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897), and See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie See also:fur protestantische Theologie (1901).

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