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Price: $2.50
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas à Kempis
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242
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Publication Date: 2003-09-18
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: This classic, second only to the Bible for religious instruction and inspiration, has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Written in a candid and conversational style, the topics include liberation from worldly inclinations, preparation and consolations of prayer, and the place of eucharistic communion in a devout life. |
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Price: $6.97
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Sale: $3.49
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Manufacturer: Hendrickson Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas a Kempis
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Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2004-07-30
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Reading Level: 160
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.30
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas a Kempis
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Publisher: Vintage
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Edition: Rev Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242
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Publication Date: 1998-03-24
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: The Thomas à Kempis fan club includes St. Ignatius, Thomas Merton, Thomas More, and even Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. (She reads a chapter of The Imitation of Christ every night before sleep.) Imitation has exerted immense influence on Christian worship, ethics, and church structure, because it gives specific yet broad-minded guidance about the central task of Christian life--learning to live like Jesus. Better to read this book a little here and there, now and then, than to try gobbling it cover to cover. Imitation is no triumph of orderly thinking, but it's a great monument and incentive to deep living. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $6.99
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Filiquarian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas A. Kempis
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Publisher: Filiquarian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248
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Publication Date: 2007-11-07
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: With the exception of the Bible, no Christian writing has had so wide a vogue or so sustained a popularity as this. And yet, in one sense, it is hardly an original work at all. Its structure it owes largely to the writings of the medieval mystics, and its ideas and phrases are a mosaic from the Bible and the Fathers of the early Church. But these elements are interwoven with such delicate skill and a religious feeling at once so ardent and so sound, that it promises to remain, what it has been for five hundred years, the supreme call and guide to spiritual aspiration. The treatise "Of the Imitation of Christ" appears to have been originally written in Latin early in the fifteenth century. Its exact date and its authorship are still a matter of debate. Manuscripts of the Latin version survive in considerable numbers all over Western Europe, and they, with the vast list of translations and of printed editions, testify to its almost unparalleled popularity.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $21.89
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Manufacturer: Baronius Press
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Binding: Leather Bound
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Author: Thomas A. Kempis
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Publisher: Baronius Press
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Publication Date: 2006-04-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: This edition has been freshly re-typeset from an older, traditional edition and printed on high quality, acid-free paper. The cover is bound in genuine, highly-durable, Moroccan leather with beautiful ornamental gold blocking on the front and the spine. Translated from the original Latin by the Right Rev. Richard Challoner, D.D. The most popular religious book - after the Bible - ever written, is presented here in its best known English translation: that of the Venerable Richard Challoner (1691 - 1781), Vicar Apostolic of the London district in penal times, and perhaps the greatest English Catholic figure of the eighteenth century. A work of spiritual devotion - its purpose is to instruct the soul in Christian perfection with Christ as the Divine Model. It consists of a series of counsels of perfection written in a familiar and even colloquial style, and is divided into four parts/books: 1. Useful Admonitions for a Spiritual Life
2. Admonitions Concerning Interior Things
3. Of Internal Consolation
4. Of the Blessed Sacrament Size - 4" x 6". Hardbound (dark-brown real leather) with silk ribbon marker.
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $4.49
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Manufacturer: Catholic Book Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: a Kempis Thomas
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Publisher: Catholic Book Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2005-09
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Reading Level: 160
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Price: $23.98
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Sale: $14.90
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Manufacturer: Hovel Audio
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Number of Items: 5
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Binding: Audio CD
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Author: Kempis::Thomas A.
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Publisher: Hovel Audio
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Edition: Unabridged
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248
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Publication Date: 2004-06-01
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Reading Level: 1
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Description: Book Description:
"The Imitation of Christ (or De imitatione Christi), by Thomas à Kempis, is a widely read Christian spiritual book. It was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418; several other authors have been proposed, but Kempis' authorship is now generally accepted.
Imitation of Christ is a writing of the mystical German-Dutch school of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and is widely considered one of the greatest manuals of devotion in Christianity. Protestants and Roman Catholics alike join in giving it praise. The Jesuits give it an official place among their "exercises". John Wesley and John Newton listed it among the works that influenced them at their conversion. General Gordon carried it with him to the battlefield.
The number of counted editions exceeds 2000; 1000 different editions are preserved in the British Museum. The Bullingen collection, donated to the city of Cologne in 1838, contained at the time 400 different editions. De Backer (Essai, ut inf.) enumerates 545 Latin and about 900 French editions.
The book was written in Latin. A manuscript from 1441 survives and there is a French translation from 1447. The first printed edition, it is a catalan edition from 1482 (Barcelona, Pere Posa), translated into Catalan by Miquel Peres. The first printed French copies appeared at Toulouse in 1488. The earliest German translation was made in 1434 by J. de Bellorivo and is preserved in Cologne. The editions in German began at Augsburg in 1486. The first English translation (1502) was by William Atkinson and Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, who did the fourth book. Translations appeared in Italian (Venice, 1488; Milan 1489), Spanish (Seville, 1536), Arabic (Rome, 1663), Armenian (Rome, 1674), Hebrew (Frankfort, 1837), and other languages. Pierre Corneille produced a poetical paraphrase in French in 1651.
The Imitation of Christ derives its title from the heading of the first of four books, De imitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi. It seems to have been written in meter and rhyme, a fact discovered by K. Hirsche in 1874. The four books are not found in all the manuscripts, nor are they arranged invariably in the same order.
The work is a manual of devotion intended to assist the soul with its pursuit of holiness and communion with God. Its sentences are statements, not arguments, and are pitched in the highest key of Christian experience. It was meant for monastics and ascetics. Behind and within all its reflections runs the counsel of self-renunciation.
The life of Christ is presented as the highest study possible to a mortal, as Jesus' teachings far excel all the teachings of the saints. The book gives counsel to read the scriptures, statements about the uses of adversity, advice for submission to authority, warnings against temptation and how to resist it, reflections about death and the judgment, meditations upon the oblation of Christ, and admonitions to flee the vanities of the world.
It was written by a monk and intended for the convent. It lays stress on the passive qualities and does not advocate active service in the world. What makes it acceptable to most Christians is the supreme emphasis it lays upon Christ and the possibility of immediate communion with him and God." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
Table of Contents:
Publisher's Preface; Introductory Note; First Book; Of The Imitation Of Christ, And Of Contempt Of The World And All Its Vanities; Of Thinking Humbly Of Oneself; Of The Knowledge Of Truth; Of Prudence In Action; Of The Reading Of Holy Scriptures; Of Inordinate Affections; Of Fleeing From Vain Hope And Pride; Of The Danger Of Too Much Familiarity; Of Obedience And Subjection; Of The Danger Of Superfluity Of Words; Of Seeking Peace Of Mind And Of Spiritual Progress; Of The Uses Of Adversity; Of Resisting Temptation; On Avoiding Rash Judgment; Of Works Of Charity; Of Bea
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $2.10
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas a Kempis
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242
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Publication Date: 2005-09-06
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $17.79
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Manufacturer: St Athanasius Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: a Kempis Thomas
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Publisher: St Athanasius Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2003-09-30
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: True Wisdom by Thomas A Kempis. Thomas A Kempis is well known for the Imitation/Following of Christ, the second best selling book of all time after the Holy Bible. His rich spiritual writings have been read by Catholics since the book was first written in 1418. What most readers don't know is that Thomas A Kempis wrote 27 books in all and most have been out of print for 100+ years. This unedited edition was translated from the Latin by the Right Rev Mgr Byrne D.D., V.G.and originally published exactly 100 years ago. Written in a similar style as the Imitation of Christ it is sure to become a widely read book in a generation that has all but lost its real sense of true wisdom and spirituality.
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Revelation Insight
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Binding: Kindle Edition
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Author: Thomas a` Kempis
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Publisher: Revelation Insight
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Edition: First
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Publication Date: 2008-12-06
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Description: Outside the Scriptures themselves, no work is more enduring than Imitation of Christ Of all the works within the Christian Heritage Library, there are few more enduring works than “Imitation of Christ.” Written by Thomas a` Kempis an Augustine monk, living in late and early 13th and 1400’s with the intended audience of his fellow cloistered brothers for a continual instruction and ready reference. Thomas’s intention as he points out within this text, was to redirect and be as a guide for those of the cloistered community. As a scribe, he was easily accessible to numerous manuscripts, from which he selected numerous instructions, which he formulated into a four part treatise. The format of a four part formulary was consistent with numerous other books and manuscript, which he was busily about copying, editing and cataloguing. In time, this work has found its way into numerous language around the world, and adorning many bookshelves of those both within the vowed vocations and the laity at large. Much like its “fraternal twin,” “Treatise of the Spiritual Life,” this translation is one of the best my eyes have savored, this work is well laid out, and the verbiage choices are superb while the reader is not lost nor impelled with numerous unreasonable ascetic practices. Within these pages resides some of the best spiritual instruction for the layperson I have yet had the pleasure to peruse. The effort of the author is focused on the parishioners of his and the surrounding communities in seeking a more devout life, while remaining in their current vocation, regardless of marital status. We trust you will agree this is indeed not only a marvelous piece of spiritual literature, but is indeed the Fraternal Twin of “Treatise of the Spiritual Life”.
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