The Name of Jesus: The Names of Jesus Used by Early Christians and the Development of the Jesus Prayer Volume 44

'Pray continually,' Scripture exhorts. 'Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus.'

Striving to obey, christian monks of the East joined adoration and compunction in unceasing prayer. In the course of fourteen centuries, they developed what some have called 'the only perfect way of prayer', the Jesus Prayer: Jesus Christ, Sone of God, have mercy on me (a sinner).'

How did the Jesus Prayer evolve? In this penetrating study, Irénée Hausherr examines the documents of the first millennium an...