The timing is perfect to cover this classic debate between St. Gregory Palamas and a Barlaamite, who represents the normative, and later dogmatic, view of the Roman Catholic Church concerning divine simplicity. St. Gregory defends the essence-energy distinction, both philosophically and in terms of patristics, after having already defended it at length from Scripture in his Triads. We will see that the distinction is real and not "virtual," "nominal," "conceptual" or merely "logical," as well as that this dogma is an essential part of Orthodoxy that cannot be denied, especially as it pertains to Christology. Later Orthodox synods condemn Barlaam and his Platonic followers. The full talk will delve deeper into St. Maximos and his argumentation, as well as more from St. Gregory's Triads.