John Eudes Bamberger (1926-2020), entered Gethsemani Abbey in 1950, having earned an MD from the University of Cincinnati the previous year and done his internship at Georgetown University Hospital. A student of Thomas Merton from 1952-1955, he worked with Merton, after his ordination in 1956, in screening applicants to the abbey. He served as abbot of the Abbey of the Genesee, in New York state, from 1971 until 2001. After returning from a term as superior in the Philippines, he lived in a hermitage at Genesee.

• CONTENTSPreface by Jean Leclercq OSB   viiIntroduction   xxiiiRecovery of the Evagrian Writings   xxiiiLife   xxxvThe History of Evagrian Theology   xlviiiThe Writings   lixDoctrine   lxxiPraktikos   1Introduction   3Text   12Chapters on Prayer   43Introduction   45Text   52Selected Bibliography   81Indexes   83Old and New Testaments   83Names of Persons   84General Index   88

Evagrius received the desert traditionabout prayer that had been developed over several generations before him. But he was the first to organize it into a coherent system.Coptic Church Review