THE WAY OF A PILGRIM
Translator: Nina A Toumanova. 69 pg. PB.
This classic of world spirituality recounts an anonymous 19th-century Russian peasant's attempts to follow St. Paul's advice to "pray without ceasing." In addition to its profound theological and philosophical observations, it offers an authentic portrait of Russia's social conditions during the final years of serfdom. Dover republication of the work as it appeared in A Treasury of Russian Spirituality, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1965.
This classic of world spirituality recounts an anonymous 19th-century Russian peasant's attempts to follow St. Paul's advice to "pray without ceasing." In addition to its profound theological and philosophical observations, it offers an authentic portrait of Russia's social conditions during the final years of serfdom. Dover republication of the work as it appeared in A Treasury of Russian Spirituality, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1965.
