Western Views
While the Eastern Church went through a tempestuous period in which the controversy was heatedly debated resulting ultimately in a series of councils alternately approving and condemning doctrine concerning hesychasm, the Western Church paid scant attention to the controversy in the East, generally rejecting the Palamite doctrine. It was not until the twentieth century that Western theologians began to "rediscover the riches of the Orthodox tradition".
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