Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart

by Kadloubovsky, Palmer G. E. H. (Translator)

Overview

The Philokalia is an important collection of writings by Fathers of the Eastern Church dating from the fourth to the fourteenth century. It exists in three versions: the Greek, complied in the eighteenth century; the Slavonic; and the Russian.

The Russian text, translated by Bishop Theophan the Recluse in the nineteenth century, and consisting of five volumes (with which a sixth is sometimes associated), is the most complete of all three versions. It is the Russian text that has been used in translating into English this selection, which presents a range of Philokalia writings concerning the Jesus Prayer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571163939
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	07/30/1992
Pages:	420
Sales rank:	399,561
Product dimensions:	5.42(w) x 7.30(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

E. Kadloubovsky also served as a translator for The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology.

G. E. H. Palmer also served as a translator for Philokalia: The Complete Text.

Editorial Reviews

"One of the most important spiritual treatises ever to be translated into English."-Catholic Herald

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