The praktikos
Subtitle: Chapters on prayer
By: Evagrius Ponticus ; translated, with an introduction and notes, by John Eudes Bamberger
Contributors: Bamberger, John Eudes; Evagrius, Ponticus, 345?-399.
Series: Cistercian studies series -- no. 4
Publisher: Cistercian Publications
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Mich
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780879078003; 9780879078041; 9780879079048
Subjects: Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Prayer -- Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Prayer -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Chapters on prayer
Work titles: Praktikos.
Description: Evagrius Ponticus is the living link through whom the ascetic principles of Hellenistic philosophers passed into the mainstream of Christian monaticism. Although not known by name for generations, Evagrius molded the ideals of Western asceticism through his own widely-disseminated works and through his influence on intermediaries like John Cassian and, through Cassian, Saint Benedict of Nursia. To those seeking God alone, he counselled absolute solitude: the solitude of separation from the world and the solitude of the human soul.
Notes: The 2nd work is a translation of De oratione, previously attributed to Saint Nilus of Ancyra

Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82) and indexes