03 — The Contents
What is in the book. The Philokalia gathers some three dozen works by around thirty authors spanning the fourth to the fifteenth century — from St. Antony and Evagrius (printed under the name of St. Neilos) through Maximus the Confessor, Diadochos, Hesychios, and Symeon the New Theologian to the fourteenth-century hesychasts Gregory of Sinai and Gregory Palamas.
Tradition: Pan-Orthodox
This section surveys the anthology’s contents. The first file walks the span of its authors across eleven centuries, noting the disputed Evagrius-under-Neilos attribution and deferring the major figures to their own collections; the second describes how the anthology is arranged and singles out its greatest texts.
Files in This Section
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| the-authors-from-antony-to-palamas.md | The span of authors, 4th–15th c.: Antony, Evagrius (under Neilos), Mark the Ascetic, Diadochos of Photiki, Maximus, Hesychios, Philotheos, Symeon the New Theologian, Nikephoros, Gregory of Sinai, Gregory Palamas — with the deferred figures and the attribution question. |
| the-arrangement-and-the-texts.md | How the anthology is structured (roughly chronological); the great texts — the Centuries on Love, On Watchfulness and Holiness, and others — and the “century” genre. |
See Also
- What the Philokalia Is — the character of the anthology
- The Hesychast Heart — the teaching the texts share
- The Desert Fathers — the earliest authors’ world
- Master README — the whole guide