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On Prayer and the Practical Life
Author: Evagrius of Pontus, Rob Newton M.D.
Narrator: AI Voice Fish Audio
Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 11/05/2026
Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Christianity, Orthodox, Mysticism, Prayer
Synopsis
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
"If you are a theologian, you will pray truly; and if you pray truly, you are a theologian."
Evagrius of Pontus was the first to map the inner life. His eight evil thoughts became the seven deadly sins of the West; his "noonday demon" of acedia is still the most exact portrait of restlessness ever written; and his 153 chapters On Prayer stand at the head of the Philokalia and of the whole Eastern tradition of pure prayer.
This volume gathers his ascetic works in a complete new English translation from the public-domain Greek of the Patrologia Graeca: On Prayer, the Practical Treatise, the Gnostic, On Thoughts, On the Eight Spirits of Wickedness, To Eulogius, the Foundations of the Monastic Life, the Sentences, and the Scholia on Ecclesiastes. With an introduction, glossary and index.
"If you are a theologian, you will pray truly; and if you pray truly, you are a theologian."
Evagrius of Pontus was the first to map the inner life. His eight evil thoughts became the seven deadly sins of the West; his "noonday demon" of acedia is still the most exact portrait of restlessness ever written; and his 153 chapters On Prayer stand at the head of the Philokalia and of the whole Eastern tradition of pure prayer.
This volume gathers his ascetic works in a complete new English translation from the public-domain Greek of the Patrologia Graeca: On Prayer, the Practical Treatise, the Gnostic, On Thoughts, On the Eight Spirits of Wickedness, To Eulogius, the Foundations of the Monastic Life, the Sentences, and the Scholia on Ecclesiastes. With an introduction, glossary and index.