9781080698387-1080698388-The Imitation Of Christ

The Imitation Of Christ

ISBN-13: 9781080698387
ISBN-10: 1080698388
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Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Independently published
Format: Paperback 145 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781080698387
ISBN-10: 1080698388
Author:
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Independently published
Format: Paperback 145 pages

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The Imitation Of Christ (ISBN-13: 9781080698387 and ISBN-10: 1080698388), written by authors , was published by Independently published in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles (Devotionals, Worship & Devotion) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Imitation Of Christ (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The treatise "Of the Imitation of Christ" appears to have been originally written in Latin early in the fifteenth century. Its exact date and its authorship are still a matter of debate. Manuscripts of the Latin version survive in considerable numbers all over Western Europe, and they, with the vast list of translations and of printed editions, testify to its almost unparalleled popularity. The most probable author, however, especially when the internal evidence is considered, is Thomas Haemmerlein, known also as Thomas a Kempis, from his native town of Kempen, near the Rhine, about forty miles north of Cologne. Haemmerlein, who was born in 1379 or 1380, was a member of the order of the Brothers of Common Life, and spent the last seventy years of his life at Mount St. Agnes, a monastery of Augustinian canons in the diocese of Utrecht. Here he died on July 26, 1471, after an uneventful life spent in copying manuscripts, reading, and composing, and in the peaceful routine of monastic piety. With the exception of the Bible, no Christian writing has had so wide a vogue or so sustained a popularity as this. And yet, in one sense, it is hardly an original work at all. Its structure it owes largely to the writings of the medieval mystics, and its ideas and phrases are a mosaic from the Bible and the Fathers of the early Church. But these elements are interwoven with such delicate skill and a religious feeling at once so ardent and so sound, that it promises to remain, what it has been for five hundred years, the supreme call and guide to spiritual aspiration. - Taken from "The Imitation Of Christ" by Thomas à Kempis

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