The Philokalia: The Complete Text: Volume One, 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, and Kallistos Ware
I suppose that even those this book is an exceedingly obscure one, it was only a matter of time before I came into contact with it. My interest in the religious traditions of Mt. Athos (of which this book is a representative) was sparked by some of my own reading [1], and my knowledge of this book was sparked even further by its glowing account in a book I read about the travels of a simple and faithful Russian peasant [2]. Although my knowledge of the Eastern Orthodox tradition is not particularly profound [3], I did not find this book to be too difficult to understand. I did, it should be noted, find this book to…
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James' Ramblings 