By: Ware, Kallistos
Sherrard, Philip
Palmer, G. E.
Pub. Date: 12/98
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Binding: Trade Paper, 458pp.
ISBN:057119382X
Our Price: $17.95

Related Books: Christianity and Hesychasm,  Scripture and Sacred Texts

Synopsis
Compiled by Bishop Kallistos Ware; The fourth volume of The Philokalia. Volumes I through III are also available.

Description from The Reader's Catalog
Ancient texts written by spiritual masters of the Greek Orthodox tradition. This fourth volume contains writings of the Church fathers, including those of St. Symeon the New Theologian.

Publisher
'The Philokalia' is a collection of texts on prayer and the spiritual life, written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. Also devoted to themes of universal significance: how we may develop our inner powers and awake from illusion; how we may overcome fragmentation and achieve wholeness; how we may attain contemplative stillness and union with God.

Theology Digest  
A collection of texts written in Greek between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox tradition. Compiled in the 18th century . . . it has had a profound influence on the spiritual life of the Eastern churches.