153 Chapters on Prayer

153 Chapters on Prayer
Author(s)	Evagrius Ponticus
Language	Greek
Subject(s)	Christianity
Genre(s)	Wisdom literature

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)