Philokalia: Volume 5
Ed. Kallistos Ware
Faber & Faber, £30, 324 pages
The much-anticipated fifth volume of an English translation of the Philokalia (more fully known as “The Philokalia of the Neptic Saints gathered from our Holy Theophanic Father through which, by means of the Philosophy of Ascetic Practice and Contemplation, the Intellect is Purified, Illumined and Made Perfect”) is the final volume of a collection of writings originally compiled in the 18th century by St Makarios of Corinth and St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain, but subsequently edited in the latter part of the 20th century by GEH Palmer and his friends Philip Sherrard and Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. Sadly, they are now all dead.
