Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain—A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel

Publication Data: New York, NY/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1989
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: xiv + 241
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.8 cm × 15.3 cm × 1.6 cm
ISBN: 0‒8091‒3038‒6

   
Translation and Foreword by Peter A. Chamberas
Introduction by George S. Bebis
Preface by Stanley S. Harakas

A volume of The Classics of Western Spirituality: A Library of the Great Spiritual Masters

“In A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel, St. Nicodemos holds that it is in the renewed and purified heart where true theology begins and where divine knowledge and teaching spring up by the grace of God. Had St. Nicodemos acquired only the external knowledge through the memory of his mind and not the purity of his heart, he would not have been able to draw out into the light of day from the depths of his soul the spiritual gifts of God, and to express them in terms that others can find beneficial. [...]A work of such spiritual value that emanates the fragrance of the Holy Spirit is not the product of the memory of the mind alone; it is also the product of the memory of the soul imbued by God.”
—“Translator’s Foreword”

CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
The Attributes of the Mind and the Body
CHAPTER TWO
Concerning the Mind
CHAPTER THREE
Guarding the Sense of Vision
CHAPTER FOUR
Guarding the Sense of Hearing
CHAPTER FIVE
Guarding the Sense of Smell
CHAPTER SIX
Guarding the Sense of Taste and the Tongue
CHAPTER SEVEN
Guarding the Sense of Touch
CHAPTER EIGHT
Guarding All the Senses in General
CHAPTER NINE
Guarding the Imagination
CHAPTER TEN
Guarding the Mind and the Heart
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Spiritual and Proper Delights of the Mind
CHAPTER TWELVE
An Epilogue on the Spiritual Delights
INDEXES