Writings from the Philokalia: On the Prayer of the Heart, translated from Russian text 'Dobrotolubiye'

E. Kadloubovsky (Translator), G. E.H. Palmer (Translator) 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. Foreword Translators' Note II Contents Introduction to Vol. I of 'Dobrotolubiye' PART I 1. Nicephorus the Solitary (from Vol. V) 2. St. Gregory of Sinai. Short Biographical Note 3. St. Gregory of Sinai. Instructions to Hesychasts (from Vol. V) 4. St. Simeon the New Theologian. Precepts (from Vol. V) 5. St. Simeon the New Theologian. On faith. Profitable tale. Three methods of attention and prayer (from Vol. V) 6. Callistus and lgnatius of Xanthopoulos (from Vol. V) 7. Callistus. Texts on prayer (from Vol. V) PART II I. Hesychius of Jerusalem (from Vol. 11) 2. Philotheus of Sinai (from Vol. Ill) 3. St. Barsanuphius and St. John (from Vol. II) 4· Theoleptus Metropolitan of Philadelphia (from Vol. V) PART III St. Philemon the Abba (from Vol. IIJ) Index of Proper Names