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This is a collection of texts written between the fourth & fifteenth centuries by the spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. (Vol. 1 covers through the eighth century.) First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian,
The Philokalia
has exercised an influence far greater than that of any book apart from the Bible in the recent history of the Orthodox Church.
Includes the writings of St. Philotheos of Sinai, Ilias the Presbyter, Theophanis the Monk, St. Peter of Damaskos and St. Symeon Metaphrastis’ paraphrase of the homilies of St. Makarios of Egypt.
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