| compiled by St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth translated from the Greek and edited by G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, Kallistos Ware with the assistance of The Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline), Constantine Cavarnos, Dana Miller, Basil Osborne, Norman Russell
Volume IV of The Philokalia: The Complete Text
“Brethren and fathers, it is god that we make God’ mercy known to all and speak to those close to us of the compassion and inexpressible bounty He has shown us. For as you know I neither fasted, nor kept vigils, nor slept on bare ground, but—to borrow the Psalmist’s words—‘I humbled myself’ and, in short, ‘the Lord saved me.’ Or, to put it even more briefly, I did no more than believe and the Lord accepted me (cf. Ps. 116 : 6, 10; 27 : 10. LXX). Man things stand in the way of our acquiring humility, but there is nothing that prevents us from having faith. For if we want it with all our heart, it will immediately become active in us, since it is God’s gift to us and a pre-eminent characteristic of our nature, even though it is also subject to our individual power of free will.” —“On Faith”
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY NOTE NOTE ON BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS AND REFERENCES ST SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN Introductory Note On Faith One Hundred and Fifty-Three Practical and Theological Texts Attributed to St Symeon the New Theologian: The Three Methods of Prayer NIKITAS STITHATOS Introductory Note On the Practice of the Virtues: One Hundred Texts On the Inner Nature of Things and on the Purification of the Intellect: One Hundred Texts On Spiritual Knowledge, Love and the Perfection of Living: One Hundred Texts THEOLIPTOS, METROPOLITAN OF PHILADELPHIA Introductory Note On Inner Work in Christ and the Monastic Profession Texts NIKIPHOROS THE MONK Introductory Note On Watchfulness and the Guarding of the Heart ST GREGORY OF SINAI Introductory Note On Commandments and Doctrines, Warnings and Promises; on Thoughts, Passions and Virtues, and also on Stillness and Prayer: One Hundred and Thirty-Seven Texts Further Texts On the Signs of Grace and Delusion, Written for the Confessor Longinos: Ten Texts On Stillness: Fifteen Texts On Prayer: Seven Texts ST GREGORY PALAMAS Introductory Note To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia A New Testament Decalogue In Defence of Those who Devoutly Practise a Life of Stillness Three Texts on Prayer and Purity of Heart Topics of Natural and Theological Science and on the Moral and Ascetic Life: One Hundred and Fifty Texts The Declaration of the Holy Mountain in Defence of Those who Devoutly Practise a Life of Stillness GLOSSARY INDEX Authors and Sources Subjects
Item Number: BKF164 Publication Data: London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1998 Format: softcover Number of Pages: 458 Dimensions (l × w × h): 19.8 cm × 12.8 cm × 3.3 cm ISBN: 0‒571‒19382‒X
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