About this title: Originally published in this translation in 1966, a collection of texts on prayer, drawn from Greek and Russian Orthodox sources. The anthology serves the devotional needs of English-speaking members of the Orthodox Church but is also relevant to the meaning and practice of prayer in other Christian traditions.
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Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Pristine condition unused and unmarked book. Text in English, Russian. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date Published: 1997-08-01
ISBN-13:9780571191659ISBN:0571191657
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780571191659ISBN:0571191657
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780571191659ISBN:0571191657
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Description: New. A spiritual anthology drawn from the Greek and Russian traditions, concerned in particular with the most frequently used and best loved of all Orthodox prayers--the Jesus Prayer. Texts are taken chiefly from the letters of Bishop Theopan the Recluse, ... read more
"I won't write too much on this, as I feel fairly unqualified, for various reasons, to write on religious books. (Though I will say that I find the great Vladimir Lossky to be absolutely impenetrable.) Still, I will note that I got this book long, long before I converted to Orthodox Christianity -- about seven years before, in fact -- and I found it a treasure then, and a treasure now. You don't need to be Orthodox to read, appreciate, and benefit from The Art of Prayer.
The passages in this collection are culled from the much longer Philokalia. That collection of monastic works is a treasure in itself, but it is first and foremost monastic, and so its utility to the lay reader is somewhat obscure. The Art of Prayer focuses upon exactly what its title suggests, and there is a beauty and a profundity to it. In reading it, there is the element of stern Russians and mystical Greeks speaking down through the centuries -- but there is also, above all else, the sense that Elijah must have had when he heard the "still small voice" that was the Lord."
"This is an Orthodox Christian anthology, largely taken from the Philokalia, on prayer. It includes sections from St. Theophan the Recluse, St. Ignaty Brianchininnov, and others. Highly recommended, although more for Orthodox than non-Orthodox."
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