The Imitation of Christ (Gift Classics)

Thomas, à Kempis

Religion & Spirituality

Collins

The Imitation of Christ (Fount Classics)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Zondervan

The Imitation of Christ is the work of at least three men: Gerard Groote, Florent Radewijns, and Thomas a Kempis. The first two were founders of the Brethren of the Common Life, a lay religious society that flourished in the Netherlands from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Working on their manuscripts, first as a compiler and editor and then as a coauthor, was Kempis.
So successful were Kempis's efforts that the work became the golden treasury not only of their community but also of the contemporary spirituality movement known as the Modern Devotion. Its prescriptions might very well be known as the Perennial Devotion for its continual appeal through the centuries.
In its fifteenth century Latin original the Imitation was not a silken cord of consecutive prose. Rather it was a series of scratchings, the sort that a spiritual director would note down in preparation for sermons and addresses. What wasn't always in the original was exactly how Kempis developed each topic sentence or wisdom quotation as he delivered it.
In this new rendition William Griffin recovers the original experience of listening to Kempis as he taught and preached to his spiritual charges. Using a variety of literary and historical means, Griffin enhances the original, making the insights of this seminal exposition of Christian life more accessible.

The Imitation of Christ: How Jesus Wants Us to Live - A Contemporary Version

HarperOne

Excerpt from Of the Imitation of Christ: Four BooksThis edition Of The Imitation Of Christ has been prepared from an educational rather than a devotional.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Of the Imitation of Christ: Four Books (Classic Reprint)

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Of the Imitation of Christ: In Three Books; Translated From the Latin (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Of the Imitation of Christ: In Three Books; Translated From the Latin Of the book itself, it will be difficult to shew the excellency and use, to those that have no perception of the power of Spiritual Devotion; and unnecessary, to those that have: the numerous editions of the Ori ginal, however, and the numerous translations of it ia tn the different languages of all the nations professing Christianity, whether as Protestants or Papists, that have been continually published for near three hun dred years; are a testimony of approbation, which few human compositions can boast, and which the ad vocates for libertinism, though they may pretend to despise it, cannot but secretly venerate. But, besides the professors and patrons of profane wit and unrestrained pleasure, there are some sober minds, who, because they live in a nation where Chris tianity is professed, have assumed the character of Christians; and being perfectly pleased with them selves, and satisfied with following the regular rotation of formal duties, are offended at every attempt to con vinee them, that there is something still needful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from De Imitatione Christi: Libri Quatuor Qui sequitur me, non ambulat in tenebris, dicit Dominus. Haec suntverba Christi, quibus adrnonemur, qua tenus vitam ejus et mores imitemur, si volumus veraciter illuminari et ab omni caecitate cordis liberari. Summu1n igitur studium nostrum sit in vita Jesu Christi meditari. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

De Imitatione Christi: Libri Quatuor (Classic Reprint)

The Imitation of Christ (Clarion Classics)

Worship & Devotion

Zondervan Publishing Company

Of the Imitation of Christ

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Whitford, Richard

Raynal, Wilfrid

History

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