Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain: A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel (Biblia.com)

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Nicodemos (1749–1809), a monk of Saint Athos dedicated to asceticism and learning, was one of the most influential Orthodox writers of the last two centuries. His Handbook, written during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, shares an exalted vision of human nature, but a vision that proceeds from the truths of revelation as interpreted by the Greek fathers, not Descartes.

Constantine Cavarnos believes that Zagoraios was the translator and Nicodemos the editor. He accepts the arguments of St. Nicodemos’ earliest biographers, Euthymios and Onouphrios, who do not credit Nicodemos with this translation. Euthymios notes simply that St. Nicodemos corrected and embellished the book of St. Symeon the New Theologian.129 Moreover, Onouphrios says that St. Nicodemos “corrected the writings of St. Symeon the New Theologian.”130 Cavarnos accepts that the introduction of the book

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