73 St Vladimir’s heological Quarterly 62.1 (2018) 73–93 Book Reviews Hieromonk Hilarion (Domratchev), Sur les Monts du Caucase: Dialogue de deux Solitaires sur la Prière de Jésus. [On the mountains of the Caucasus: Dialogue of two hermits on the Jesus Prayer]. Tr. Dom André Louf, Fr. Serge Modal, & Claire Jounievy. Preface by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev). Paris: Éditions des Syrtes, 2016. 381 pp. ISBN 9782940523443. €25. As the face of Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships, so this book launched a thousand writings on the “Quarrel of the Name” in pre-revolutionary Russia. On Mont Athos and in Russia prior to World War I a major theological conlict took place over a doctrine known as “Name-praising” or “Name-gloriication” (onomatodoxy, from the Greek; in Russian, imenoslavie). he Name-of-God conlict has its origins in 1907 with the publication of a book in Russia, Na Gorakh Kavkaza (On the Mountains of the Caucasus), by Archimandrite Hilarion (Domratchev) (1845–1916). he subtitle of the original provides indications of the book’s contents and perspective: Discussions between Two Hermits on the Inner Union with the Lord of Our Hearts by the Prayer of Jesus Christ, or the Spiritual Practice of Contemporary Hermits. Composed by a Hermit of the Mountains, Forests and Canyons of the Caucasus. he publication of the irst edition of Schemamonk Hilarion’s book was inanced by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna (Saint Elizabeth of Russia, 1845–1918), aunt and sister-in-law to Tsar Nicholas II. he book reviewed here is a French translation of the original—there is also a German translation, but no English translation. Archimandrite Hilarion’s unsystematic book includes mainly spiritual dialogues with his elder, Desiderius, mostly concerning prayer, especially the Jesus Prayer; Hilarion’s own development of related themes typical of hesychastic spirituality; descriptions of the Caucasus Mountains, their animals, birds, vegetation,