The practice of continuous prayer has been known in the Christian
church as early as the second century AD, well before the beginning
of Christian monasticism. One of the ways early Christians
practiced continuous prayer was through the repetition of short
bible verses throughout the day. While this mode of prayer did not
have any specific name until the twentieth century, its practice
has always been characterized by the imagery of warfare and, more
specifically, the use of arrows. It was probably this that gave
rise to its name, the Arrow Prayer, on account of its brevity and
its use to attack evil thoughts. However, most research on
continuous prayer only focuses on the Jesus Prayer, and presumes
that the Arrow Prayer and other prayer practices are extensions of
it. In this book, Fr Anthony St Shenouda scrutinizes this
conclusion by examining the sources that attest to any practice of
continuous prayer, and the cultural backdrop that gave rise to
these practices. Ultimately, he argues that the tradition of the
Arrow Prayer is much older than the Jesus Prayer, and that it is
the parent tradition out of which the Jesus Prayer arose.
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