The Philokalia, Volume 2
For For readers already praying and reading the Fathers who want the hesychast texts themselves; dense ascetic writing meant to be read slowly. Not a first book on Orthodox prayer.
The second volume of the English translation of the Philokalia, the collection of Greek ascetic and mystical texts on watchfulness and inner prayer compiled by St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth and first published in Venice in 1782. The translation, made from the Greek and published by Faber and Faber, was the joint work of G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware, each text with a short introduction. This volume contains the writings attributed to Theodoros the Great Ascetic, works of St Maximos the Confessor, Thalassios the Libyan, St John of Damaskos, a discourse on Abba Philemon and Theognostos. The large section from Maximos makes it the most theologically dense of the volumes.
Catalog IDW.ZSTM08.V