The Philokalia

A selection of key works from the foundational book of the Orthodox Church, in a landmark new translation ‘Eat the gnostic bread of wisdom found in this book, and drink the wine which gladdens the heart’ The Philokalia is the most influential book in the recent history of the Orthodox Church, aside from the Bible. It is an anthology of thirty-six spiritual texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by the masters of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, tracing a continuous tradition of t