“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
Item Number: BKPP291 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
