Publisher: Faber and Faber

Author: Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St. Makarios of Corinth

Dimensions: 7.75" x 5"

Format/Cover Type: Softcover

ISBN-13: 978-0-571-13013-9 Volume One
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-15466-1 Volume Two
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-17525-3 Volume Three
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19382-0 Volume Four              

Pages: 1628

Description: The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence in the recent history of the Orthodox Church far greater than that of any book apart from the Bible. It is concerned with themes of universal importance: how man may develop his inner powers and awake from illusion; how he may overcome fragmentation and achieve spiritual wholeness; how he may attain the life of contemplative stillness and union with God.