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While some modern scholars have criticized his writings for influence from [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] spirituality, canon law, and theology, his life work clearly focused on reviving traditional Orthodox texts and ascetic practices, making use of limited materials at hand amid the Turkish occupation of the Greek world, which involved sometimes adapting Catholic materials. He translated and revised "The Spiritual Combat" (1589) by Lorenzo Scupoli, a Catholic priest of Venice, renaming it "Unseen Warfare," as well as the "Spiritual Exercises" of J.P. Pinamonti (sometimes wrongly thought to have been Ignatius Loyola's work), probably via a Greek translation by Emmanuel Rominantes. While "The Rudder" centered on canons Accusations of the Ecumenical Councils Catholic and important local councils Pietistic influences on his work, a topic of controversy going back to debate over the Orthodox Church, he drew also Kollyvades ascetic reform movement with which St. Nicodemus was associated in it on Roman canon law. He articulated the Atonement at times Greek Church in Anselmian termshis day, have been disputed (for a recent detailed discussion, although upholding see the Orthodox hesychastic sense introductory materials to "Christian Morality," a 2012 English translation of "Chrestoethia of salvation Christians" (which originally appeared in his writings1803). There is an extant letter by A current commentator in that translation remarks on how St . Nicodemus to Bishop Paisios ' text reflects in part "the monastic propriety of Stagai requesting an [[Absolution Certificates|indulgence]], and promising financial payment for it, and his manual on sacramental confessionage, the "Exomologetarionand " is a reworking of two books on confession conventions upheld by Paulo Segnerithe civil authorities," rather than Catholic or Pietist influence per se, a Jesuitas earlier writers alleged. HoweverArchimandrite Chrysostom Maidones, as revised by him Chancellor of the Metropolis of Hierissos in Orthodox termsGreece, the latter became in a standard confessional guide in Greek Orthodoxy. The influence recent English translaiton of Western pietistic moralism St Nicodemus' confession guidebook, also has been alleged commented on how a neglect in his modern academic theology of study of the "Chrestoethia Fathers of Christiansthe Philokalic movement," (1803), in which he condemns musical instruments, dancing, (non-liturgical) singingincluding St. Nicodemus, has contributed to some confusion about how to contextualize the telling of jokes, etcSaint's work.

However, Yet recent renewed attention in the West to the Saint's works in their primary Orthodox context has reflected reflects the expanded availability of English translations of his major works, as well as greater awareness of the cosmopolitan contexts of Christian sources in the early modern period, the latter involving both through scholarship on the sequences of translation and adaptation of Roman Catholic texts in the East, and better understanding of the influence of the Orthodox ascetic texts of the Macarian homilies on Pietism in the Eighteenth Century, for example. In this light, the main context of his St. Nicodemus' works can be appreciated as firmly in the tradition of Orthodox asceticism--exemplified by the influence of his compilation of "The Philokalia"--applicable in varying ways to monastics, clergy, and laity alike. The legacy of St. Nicodemus' voluminous scholarship thus can be understood from a larger perspective in part as an Orthodox response to a variety of eighteenth-century cultural movements in Europe, including not only the Enlightenment, but also the aftermath of the Counter-Reformation, Pietism, and Romanticism.

*English translations of his work in recent years, often with prefaces by Orthodox scholars, include, in addition to older editions of "The Philokalia," "Unseen Warfare," and "The Rudder," the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies' "Christian Morality" or "Chrestoethia of Christians," the Uncut Mountain Press editions of "Exomologetarion--A Manual of Confession," "Concerning Frequent Communion," and "Confession of Faith."*"The SynaxrionSynaxarion," compiled by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra (also an adaptation of St. Nicodemus' work), "July 14," pp. 146-153, including the current editor's footnotes. Trans. Mother Maria Rule and Mother Joanna Burton. Holy Convent of the Annunciation of Our Lady Ormylia (Chalkidike), 2008. Vol. 6.