Description:
Practical advice from a master on how to move "from spoken prayer to a heart of fire". Four chapters cover: a personal rule of prayer, mental prayer, unceasing prayer, a life of prayer. "I think that these few instructions are enough..."
Brief description: from the back cover of The Heart of Salvation, "First a schoolteacher, then a bishop, then a hermit, Theophan the Recluse was one of the Russian holy men canonized in 1988 and one of the greatest of the "startzi" - teachers of spirituality and of Prayer of the Heart - who have played such an important role in keeping the spiritual doctrines of the early Fathers alive in the Russian Orthodox Church."