The Art of Prayer

Year 1966
Type Other
Genre prayer
Tradition Eastern Orthodox
Original language English

For For readers drawn to the Jesus Prayer who want Russian spiritual teachers in their own words, Theophan the Recluse above all; an anthology of short extracts. Not a systematic guide.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 2 of 5 moderate

Short extracts from Russian teachers on prayer of the heart and the Jesus Prayer, gathered by a Valamo abbot and introduced by Ware. A book to read a page at a time.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 1 of 5
Scriptural 1 of 5
Experiential 5 of 5
Sociological 0 of 5
Historical 1 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

An English edition of a Russian anthology on inner prayer compiled by Igumen Chariton of the Valamo monastery, translated by E. Kadloubovsky and E. M. Palmer and published by Faber and Faber in 1966, edited and introduced by Timothy Ware (as he then was, the year he was ordained). It gathers short passages from nineteenth-century Russian teachers on prayer of the heart and the Jesus Prayer. Ware's editorial work and introduction are his part in the book; the anthology itself is Chariton's. It is one of the books through which the Russian hesychast tradition reached English readers before the full Philokalia translation began.

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