I'm afraid that I have to disagree with this. Pomazansky's Dogmatics is highly scholastic and trapped in Western dogmatic categories. It lacks the very foundations of Orthodox Theology. Nowhere does it make any mention of the distinction between uncreated and created nor does it make the distinction between God's essence and energy. The book doesn't even make a single mention of the word "energy"!
Julia, Perhaps you have a different copy? Look in the index under terms like
Energy, Divine (Uncreated Energy) (p.417 in my copy).
Most of his discussions on these topics are in footnotes, usually making reference to Lossky or Palamas. See for example p.166 where he discusses the Catholic view of Grace as created vs. the Orthodox view of Grace as the Uncreated Energy of God.
So your statements above are false on the face of it and a bit unfair to the author. He does indeed make numerous mentions of the Created/Uncreated and Essence/Energies distinctions.
That being said, I think it is true that he gives these topics a very light treatment. The emphasis of his work is on
dogmatics, and so it is not surprising that his primary interest is less on St. Gregory Palamas and more in discussing the dogmas of the Church as put forth by the seven Ecumenical Councils.
Therefore, with this narrower theological focus, I would not recommend his work as a point of entry for those wanting to learn about the fullness of Orthodox theology, particularly Orthodox spirituality. If Pomazansky's were the only Orthodox theological work read by an inquirer, they could easily come away with the impression that there isn't much difference in emphasis, style, or approach between Orthodox and Catholic theology, and that would be incorrect.
With love in Christ.
