153 Chapters on Prayer
153 Chapters on Prayer by Evagrius Ponticus
Contents[edit | edit source]
Contents according to Evagrius of Pontus: The Greek Ascetic Corpus (Oxford, 2003):[1]
- 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
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Evagrius. Evagrius of Pontus: The Greek Ascetic Corpus. Translated by Robert E. Sinkewicz, (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
External links[edit | edit source]
- On Prayer / Περι προσευχῆς / De Oratione (Translation by Luke Dysinger)