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Mar 24, 1998 | ISBN 9780375700187 Buy
Aug 12, 1955 | ISBN 9780385028615 Buy
Oct 20, 2009 | ISBN 9780307589545 Buy
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Mar 24, 1998 | ISBN 9780375700187
Aug 12, 1955 | ISBN 9780385028615
Oct 20, 2009 | ISBN 9780307589545
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imitation of Christ. This meditation on the spiritual life has inspired readers from Thomas More and St. Ignatius Loyola to Thomas Merton and Pope John Paul I. Written by the Augustinian monk Thomas à Kempis between 1420 and 1427, it contains clear instructions for renouncing wordly vanities and locating eternal truths. No book has more explicitly and movingly described the Christian ideal: "My son, to the degree that you can leave yourself behind, to that degree will you be able to enter into Me." With a new Preface by Sally Cunneen, author of In Search of Mary: The Woman and the Symbol."God is our home but many of us have strayed from our native land. The venerable authors of these Spiritual Classics are expert guides–may we follow their directions home."–Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imitation of Christ. This meditation on the spiritual life has inspired readers from Thomas More and St. Ignatius Loyola to Thomas Merton and Pope John Paul II. Written by the Augustinian monk Thomas à Kempis between 1420 and 1427, it contains clear instructions for renouncing wordly vanities and locating eternal truths. No book has more explicitly and movingly described the Christian ideal: “My son, to the degree that you can leave yourself behind, to that degree will you be able to enter into Me.” With a new Foreword by Carl Anderson, the Supreme Knight and chief executive officer of the Knights of Columbus.
Thomas à Kempis (ca. 1380-1471) was an Augustinian monk in the Netherlands during the pre-Reformation period. Carl Anderson is the Supreme Knight and chief executive officer of the Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization with more… More about Thomas Kempis
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