Thomas à Kempis
Imitation of Christ, Book I: Admonitions Useful for the Spiritual Life
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Imitation of Christ, Book I: Admonitions Useful for the Spiritual Life
Admonitiones ad spiritualem vitam utiles (De imitatione Christi, liber I)
Twenty-five chapters of counsel for the beginner: to imitate the life of Christ, to despise vanity, to know oneself humbly, to prefer feeling compunction to knowing how to define it, to love solitude and silence, to think of death and judgement. It contains the most quoted sentences of the work, such as 'how quickly the glory of the world passes away'.
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Part of the Imitation; the oldest known copy of Book I is dated around 1424.
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Other works by Thomas à Kempis
- The Imitation of Christ · 1441
- Imitation of Christ, Book II: Admonitions Drawing toward the Inner Life · 1427
- Imitation of Christ, Book III: On Inner Consolation · 1430
- Imitation of Christ, Book IV: On the Blessed Sacrament · 1430
- The Soliloquy of the Soul · 1435
- The Little Garden of Roses · 1440
- The Valley of Lilies · 1440
- Of the Three Tabernacles · 1440
- On the Discipline of Cloistered Religious · 1440
- Of the Faithful Steward · 1440
- Letter to a Cellarer · 1440
- Of True Compunction of Heart · 1440
- Little Book of Spiritual Exercise · 1440
- On the Elevation of the Mind · 1440
- Manual for the Young · 1440
- Manual for Little Ones · 1440
- Hospice of the Poor · 1440
- Consolation of the Poor and the Sick · 1440
- Little Alphabet of a Good Monk · 1440
- Sermons to the Novices Regular · 1440
- Sermons on the Life and Passion of Our Lord; A Meditation on the Incarnation · 1440
- Prayers and Meditations on the Life of Christ · 1440
- Dialogues of the Novices and Lives of the Founders · 1450
- Life of St Lidwina of Schiedam · 1448
- The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St Agnes · 1471
- Canticles and Hymns · 1450
- Letters · 1450
Sources
- Thomas a Kempis. De imitatione Christi, libros I–IV (texto latino). Wikisource en latín.
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