![]() ![]() Like Eckhart and Tauler before him, Thomas taught that love, not faith, was the highest expression of Christian virtue.ĪBOUT THE JUDGEMENT, AND HOW SINNERS ARE PUNISHEDĪt every turn of your life, keep the end in view remember that you will have to stand before a strict Judge, who knows everything, who cannot be won over by gifts or talked round by excuses, who will give you your deserts. Translated from the Latin, The Imitation of Christ is probably the most popular book of Christian devotion ever written. He emphasized a literate, individual spirituality, self-discipline, and, above all, the practice of charity, which he viewed as the highest virtue and the best way to follow the example of God’s son. While ascetic and monastic in origin, the piety Thomas taught is adapted for a variety of ways of life. ![]() Although many who followed Thomas’ principles were laypersons, he himself was part of a community that lived under Augustinian rule. ![]() 1380-1471), a native of the Lower Rhenish region, was the author of The Imitation of Christ, a uniquely popular book that codified the ideals of the movement called “the Modern Devotion”. From the Reformation to the Thirty Years War (1500-1648)įollowing Christ's Example in the World – Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (c. ![]()
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