The Philokalia: The Complete Text, Volume IV

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

   
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