Byzantine Philosophy: Transfiguration of Man in the Tabor Light Doctrine of Gregory Palamas

The anthropological issues of philosophy of the late period Byzantium are under consideration in the article. The particular attention is paid to the substantiation of the Tabor Light conception of Gregory Palamas, a founder of Byzantine Hesychasm. Palamas' Uncreated Light (Tabor) doctrine is submitted concerning his teaching on God's energies and his understanding of the human being. The author shows the essential change of the Human being in connection with his perception of the Divine Light, i.e., the transfiguration of Man by the Light. Some provisions of Hesychasm connected with religious gnosis and the possibilities of the human mind in the knowledge of the Godhead are considered.