Book
The Imitation of Christ
- Published
- 1418
- Genre
- Religion
- Pages
- 288
- Words
- 63223
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19214720-the-imitation-of-christ
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 15–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 10 onwards · ages 15–18
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Living a life which is more like that espoused by Jesus Christ and his followers – a life of penitence, poverty and obedience to God’s will – receives its due in Thomas Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ, composed in the 1400s, but the instructional guide also emphasizes the significance of isolation and prayer as a way of growing a personal relationship with the Almighty. Imitation has proven over the course of 600 years to be one of the most influential and widely translated volumes in the world, second only in the Christian literary canon to the Bible.
Collections
Harvard Classics
Tags
Harvard ClassicsReligionReligion-Christianity