theological work and that the work of theology should be offered as prayer, in the context of a praying community and in penitence and praise. He is also saying that theological work should end in prayer, in gratitude and with an ‘Amen’. But in the same breath Evagrius is getting at something more suggestive than the bookending of theological work in prayer. Theological work is not only nourished by prayer, ‘just as bread is nourishment for the body’ (On Prayer 101), but the very work of theology