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The Philokalia: A Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book is a collection of scholarly chapters that introduces the history, theology and spiritual practices of the Philokalia—a collection of monastic texts of the Eastern Orthodox Church written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries. Next to the Bible, the Philokalia is the most widely read book in the Orthodox world today by monks and laypeople alike. It is rapidly gaining popularity...

to certify that the book contains nothing contro la Santa Fede Cattolica, “contrary to the Holy Catholic Faith.”73 A contemporary Roman Catholic reader may surely agree with this estimate, unless he or she happens to be a determined anti-Palamite (which fortunately most Roman Catholics today are not). Within the broad spectrum of Eastern Christian spirituality, the texts in the Philokalia reflect predominantly one particular approach: the Evagrian-Maximian orientation. This is immediately apparent
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