For For readers of French interested in the Jesus Prayer and hesychasm; not for readers without French.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A French book on the Jesus Prayer and the experience of the Holy Spirit, drawn from the Philokalia.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural2 of 5
Experiential5 of 5
Sociological0 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Published in Paris by Desclée de Brouwer in 1981, this book presents the Jesus Prayer of the hesychast tradition and the experience of the Holy Spirit to which it leads, drawing on the Philokalia he had spent decades translating.
