About this title: This 15th-century meditation on the spiritual life influenced Thomas More, St. Ignatius Loyola, Thomas Merton, Pope John Paul I, and many others. A classic text of Western religious ideals.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Whitaker House
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780883680940ISBN:0883680947
Description: Very Good; Binding is tight and all pages are intact. The cover shows very slight shelf wear-mostly some creasing at the spine and rubbing at the top corner. Edges and pages are clean of marking, but the pages and inside covers are browning. 0.8 x 6.6 x 4.1 Inches This spiritual classic contains a mind-numbing amount of practical advice. It should be read in bits, rather than cover to cover. Imitation of Christ makes a great self-examination not only for spiritual growth but for general ... read more
Description: Acceptable. Paperback, New American, 1962, cover has a great deal of wear with corner bends and fraying to spine, shelf and edge wear, name on 1st page, text has highlighting and is tanned, spine is tight, ships within 24 hr. sku Z 10 C. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Whitaker House, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780883680940ISBN:0883680947
Description: Good. 0883680947 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m...02306187 _ read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Whitaker House, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780883680940ISBN:0883680947
Description: Very Good. Mass market paperback in very good shape. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Whitaker House, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780883680940ISBN:0883680947
Description: Very Good. Mass market paperback in very good shape. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Whitaker House
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780883680940ISBN:0883680947
Description: Very Good; Wear and creases on cover. Bend on top corner of pages and some discoloration. Shipped from a smoke free home in Michigan. (Rel). 0883680947. 0.69 x 6.82 x 4.13 Inches. read more
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: Catholic Book Publishing Co., New York
Date Published: 1988
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Very good clean tight hardback with only very light overall wear. previous owner bookplate inside front cover. pages clean and unmarked. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
"Rereading this with Benedict's Book Club...should reread this at least once @ year anyway!
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Have read this book so many times I have lost count. It is WONDERFUL!!! After the Bible it is the most popular book in Christianity and a well-deserved/earned reputation too."
"If anyone can claim the credentials to be a "card carrying evangelical", it's me. Born and raised Church of the Nazarene. Saved at grandma's Methodist church camp. Baptized, second-act-of-grace santicfication, Youth for Christ trained, Billy Graham crusade foot soldier. It is a membership that lasted well over forty years. But by the end of the 2004 presidential campaign, if there had been somewhere I could go and turn in my card, I would have gladly done so. By that time the word "evangelical" had pretty much lost any sense of religious identification for me. It had been almost completely co-opted by Republican political operatives and Christian Fundamentalists with whom I had little or no sense of theological community.
In retrospect, my departure from mainstream evangelicalism had starting years earlier, when I discovered the Social Justice wing of the church, which, in my own view, remained Protestant and Wesleyan. But as I grew old and crusty, my faith journey started to take some strange twists and turns. In retropsect, the mile stones in this journey became marked by a reading list that grew ever wider from the boundaries of my Protestant upbringing and education.
This book shelf, "Evangelical Escape Pod" is actually a literary history of books that have brought me to a place that would probably send my Nazarene Sunday School teachers into a frenzy of Wednesday night Prayer Meeting intersession (or possibly intervention). It began with this book, "The Imitation of Christ", which I first read probably sometime in the late 80s. It was the first sharp departure from my Prtotestant Reformation comfort zone, and began a long, slow and still evolving transformation"
"This is not a book that can be read quickly. It is very spiritual and challenges the reader. At the same time,this book can be rather intimidating. After all, the writer was a monk and lived in a religious community -- and his opportunities for prayer and meditation and quietness are inherent in his environment. I was able to relate more readily to Brother Lawrence's book, as he worked in a kitchen, and his walk was linked to his relationship with others in his everyday encounters. There are parts of this book that really spoke to my heart and I know I will reread again in the future. I also thought this title was misleading, for I was anticipating more of a book that taught how to live everyday life as Christ would have us live it. Instead, one of the main themes is coming apart from the world to live a life totally committed to Christ. Another major concern of the book is the sinfulness of man, and I didn't feel that this was balanced with the message of the grace of God. For someone on a spiritual journey, it definitely is a book worth reading. The reason I gave it a 3 instead of a 4 is that there were parts of the book that I simply couldn't relate to, especially the section on the Mass. For others this segment would be very meaningful and would definitely add to their appreciation of the book. Overall, I would say I gained spiritual insights and was definitely led to ponder the deep side of spiritualism."
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