Eastern Christian Spiritual Texts Selections Annotated and Explained

Name: Eastern Christian Spiritual Texts Selections Annotated and Explained
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ISBN: 9781594731037

ISBN-10: 1594731039

ISBN-13: 9781594731037

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Allyne Smith, G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, Bishop kallistos Ware

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This book is the first approachable introduction to the wisdom of the Philokalia (also known as ?The Prayer of the Heart?), which is the classic text of Eastern Christian spirituality. An entirely new translation by Allyne Levoit Smith of significant sections of the five-volume work, which was written by monks from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, the texts are clearly explained and set in historical and spiritual context in the readable commentary on each facing page. The Philokalia until now has been somewhat intimidating to the general reader in its scholarly translations from Greek and Russian, yet there is great spiritual wisdom in this beloved writing, for readers of all faiths…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: LongHill Partners, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638

Bishop Kallistos Ware is a renowned Orthodox theologian, author and translator of the Philokalia.



Introduction



Repentance



The Heart



Prayer



The Jesus Prayer



The Passions



Stillness



In the End: Theosis


Notes


Suggestions for Further Reading