Light, Life, And Love

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
SKU:
9781533605863
|
ISBN13:
9781533605863
$11.36
(No reviews yet)
Condition:
New
Usually Ships in 24hrs
Current Stock:
Estimated Delivery by: | Fastest delivery by:
Adding to cart… The item has been added
Buy ebook
TO most English readers the "Imitation of Christ" is the representative of mediaeval German mysticism. In reality, however, this beautiful little treatise belongs to a period when that movement had nearly spent itself. Thomas a Kempis, as Dr. Bigg has said, [1] was only a semi-mystic. He tones down the most characteristic doctrines of Eckhart, who is the great original thinker of the German mystical school, and seems in some ways to revert to an earlier type of devotional literature. The "Imitation" may perhaps be described as an idealised picture of monastic piety, drawn at a time when the life of the cloister no longer filled a place of unchallenged usefulness in the social order of Europe. To find German mysticism at its strongest we must go back a full hundred years, and to understand its growth we must retrace our steps as far as the great awakening of the thirteenth century--the age of chivalry in religion
  • | Author: W. R. Inge
  • | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • | Publication Date: Jun 04, 2016
  • | Number of Pages: 150 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1533605866
  • | ISBN-13: 9781533605863
Author:
W. R. Inge
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date:
Jun 04, 2016
Number of pages:
150 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1533605866
ISBN-13:
9781533605863