153 Chapters on Prayer

153 Chapters on Prayer
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153 Chapters on Prayer by Evagrius Ponticus

Contents

Contents according to Evagrius of Pontus: The Greek Ascetic Corpus (Oxford, 2003):

• Prologue
• The practical life
  • 1-4: Virtue
  • 5-8: Tears
  • 9-11: Distractions
  • 12-27: Anger
  • 28-45: Prayer practice
  • 46-50: Dangers and demons
• True Prayer
  • 51-65: The frontiers of true prayer
  • 66-73: Imaging the divine
  • 74-81: The service of the angels
  • 82-88: Psalmody
  • 89-105: Trials
  • 106-112: Apophthegmata
• Concluding miscellany (Macarisms: 117-123)
  • 113-120: Imageless prayer
  • 121-125: Charity
  • 126-153: Miscellaneous counsels

External links

• On Prayer / Περι προσευχῆς / De Oratione (Translation by Luke Dysinger)