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Light, life, and love
selections from the German mystics of the middle ages
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2015-01-07
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| ISBN | 1506083749, 9781506083742,
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English
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| Subject | Mysticism -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Mysticism -- Middle Ages. -- fast -- (OCoLC)fst01907110 RELIGION -- Mysticism. -- bisacsh |
Description
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.