The Imitation of Christ normal ” presenting the basic methods

” presenting the basic methods of the craft as well as the main faults of its inexperienced or impetuous practitioners

Thomas’s profound study of the whole problem of human happiness

shortly following these words

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and The Eucharist and the Confessional

The Imitation of Christ normal ” presenting the basic methodsBy Thomas Kempis Translated by Ronald Knox & Michael Oakley The late fourteenth century witnessed the beginning of a new spiritual movement. This movement, as Church historian Henri Daniel Rops has described, was animated by a desire for a humble, simple life, soundly based upon discipline and temperate habits, and its rule of life has been enshrined in this timeless masterpiece: The Imitation of Christ. Spiritual inspiration and sustenance for such