Book description
One of the best-loved books of Christianity after the Bible, The
Imitation of Christ is a passionate celebration of God and His love,
mercy and holiness, which has inspired conversion and stimulated
religious devotion for over five hundred years. With great personal
conviction, Thomas Kempis (1380-1471) demonstrates the individual's
reliance on God and on the words of Christ, and the futility of life
without faith. Thomas spent some seventy years of his life in the
reclusive environment of monasteries, yet in this astonishing work he
demonstrates an encompassing understanding of human nature and his
writing speaks to readers of every age and every nation.
Thomas a Kempis was born near Dusseldorf in 1380. He became attached
to the Congregation of Common Life at the age of thirteen, and was
professed in 1406, receiving the priesthood in 1413 at the age of
thirty-three. he wrote many devotional works and became Sub-Prior and
Master of the Novices at the monastery of Mount St Agnes. He died in 1471.
Leo Sherley-Price was Rural Dean and parish priest in Devon., and
translated a number of historical and theological books.
