Gedalyah Nigal

Gedalyah Nigal is a pivotal scholar whose work illuminates the profound currents of mystical thought within Russian Orthodoxy. His research delves into the heart of Imiaslavie, the controversial 20th-century movement that posited an inseparable divine essence within the Name of God itself. Nigal unpacks the complex theological debates surrounding this "name-praisingness," a doctrine that asserted the Name not merely as a label, but as the very energy and action of the divine. He traces its alleg…