A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Barlaamites

by Hannah Adams

BARLAAMITES, a denomination of the sixteenth century, followers of Barlaam, a Neapolitan monk, who was called a heretic for asserting that the light, which surrounded Christ on Mount Tabor, was not an emanation of the divine Essence.^[1]

Original footnotes

1. Mosheim, vol. iii. p. 374, new edition.