Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Foundations of the Monastic Life: A Presentation of the Practice of Stillness
2: To Eulogios On the Confession of Thoughts and Counsel in their Regard
3: [To Eulogios] On the Vices Opposed to the Virtues
4: On the Eight Thoughts
5: The Monk: A Treatise on the Practical Life
6: To Monks in Monasteries and Communities and Exhortation to a Virgin
7: On Thoughts
8: Chapters on Prayer
9: Reflections
10: Exhortations 1-2
11: Thirty-Three Ordered Chapters
12: Maxims 1-3
Commentary Notes
Appendix I: Variant Readings for the Greek texts
Appendix 2: The Greek text of Eulogios

About the Author

Robert E. Sinkewicz is Professor of Eastern Christian Studies at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

Robert Sinkewicz here offers a valuable aid to this renewed attention to one of the most important spiritual and ascetic Eastern writers ... This work is sure to become a familiar and well-used resource for the study of eastern spirituality. John Behr, St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly