Nicodemo

UNSEEN WARFARE: Being The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli

1963 · ref. 510818 — Faber and Faber 1963. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/Very Good. First Edition Thus first printing. 281pp. Sewn binding in red cloth hard covers. Tiny stain to RFEP. Otherwise clean and unmarked copy. This spiritual classic was written by Lorenzo Scupoli a sixteenth-century Venetian priest. Immensely popular in its own day it was ranked by Francis de Sales with the Imitation of Christ. In the general rapport between Western and Eastern Christendom it reached Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain who first recognized its immense spiritual worth and later in the nineteenth century Theophan the Recluse both of whom edited and translated the work. Rich in its references to the teachings of the saints and Fathers Unseen Warfarecombines the insights of West and East on that spiritual combat which is the road to perfection and the stripping away of all that militates against it. Staretz Theophan wrote in his foreword 'the arena the field of battle the site where the fight actually takes place is our own heart and all our inner man. The time of battle is our whole life.'. Faber and Faber hardcover