Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
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Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain   -     By: Nicodemus

Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain

Paulist Press / 1989 / Paperback

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Product Description

St. Nicodemos was born on the island on Naxos in 1749. At the age of 26 he entered the monastery on Mount Athos and devoted himself to a life of asceticism & learning. This work contains Nicodemos' Handbook of Spiritual Counsel, composed during his self-imposed exile on the island of Skyropoula and written during the Age of Enlightenment in western Europe. As a result, his writing shares an exalted vision of human nature, but a vision that proceeds from the truths of revelation as interpreted by the Greek Fathers, and not from Descartes. This exceeds in optimism any enlightened vision of man who, by the powers of reason, perceives the principles by which the universe is ordered.
Includes a 60 page Introduction by Dr. George S. Bebis. Translated by Peter A. Chamberas and Preface by Stanley S. Harakas.

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Title: Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
By: Nicodemus
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Vendor: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1989
Dimensions: 6 X 9 X 3/4 (inches)
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 0809130386
ISBN-13: 9780809130382
Series: Classics of Western Spirituality
Stock No: WW33086

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"...a milestone in American religious publishing."
—New Catholic World

Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain: A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel
translation and foreword by Peter A. Chamberas
introduction by George S. Bebis
preface by Stanley S. Harakas

"Such philosophers considered man to be only a microcosmos, minimizing and restricting his value and perfection within this visible world. God, on the contrary, has place man to be a sort of macrocosmos—a greater world within the smaller one."
—Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain

St. Nicodemos was born on the island of Naxos in 1749, when the Ottoman Empire still cast its shadow over the once powerful lands of Byzantium. Studying under the monk Ierotheos Voulismas at the Evangelical school in Smyrna, he was introduced to the Kollyvades monks of Mount Athos whose strict life and zeal for holiness, combined with a love of learning, made them the leading biblical and patristic scholars in the Byzantine world of the late eighteenth century. Nicodemos entered the monastery on Mount Athos at twenty-six, and devoted himself to a life of asceticism and learning.

It is no exaggeration to say that he was among the most influential Orthodox writers of the last two centuries. His writings on apologetics, hagiography, ascetical and pastoral theology, ethics, patristics and liturgies comprise over two hundred works. His most famous work is the Philokalia, which is a compilation of patristic writings on the spiritual life.

Included in this volume, in a new translation, is A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel, which was composed during a self-imposed exile on the island of Skyropoula. That work, written during the time of the Age of Enlightenment in western Europe, shares an exalted vision of human nature, but a vision that proceeds from the truths of revelation as interpreted by the Greek Fathers, and not from Descartes. This exceeds in optimism any enlightened vision of man who, by the powers of reason, perceives the principles by which the universe is ordered.

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