The Philokalia
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Product Information
| ISBN | 9780241201374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anonymous |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.362 |
| Publishing Date | 30/10/2025 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €21.46 |
| Tax | €1.29 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €22.75 |
| Availability | 5 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
The Philokalia is the most influential book in the recent history of the Orthodox Church, aside from the Bible. It is an anthology of thirty-six spiritual texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by the masters of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, tracing a continuous tradition of the prayer of the heart, or hesychasm, in which the Jesus Prayer plays a growing role, from Evagrios of Pontos to Gregory Palamas. First published in Greek in 1782, and revered for offering a rich tapestry of wisdom on the path to union with God, the texts, largely of monastic origin, serve as a guide to lay people as well as monks in their pursuit of contemplative prayer, ‘inner asceticism’, and the purification of the soul.