Modern commentaries on this religious text include Eknath Easwaran's Seeing with the Eyes of Love, which analyzes thiswork's chapter "The Wonderful Effect of Divine Love."
Modern commentaries on this religious text include Eknath Easwaran's Seeing with the Eyes of Love, which analyzes thiswork's chapter "The Wonderful Effect of Divine Love." In a section about living in a community with others, this text notes,"dress and tonsure proÂt little; but change of heart and perfect mortifiÂcation of the passions" are desired. The fourth bookof this work exhorts the reader to "purge out the old leaven and make clean the dwelling of your heart," to prepare for thesacrament, and the third book consists of Âfty-nine chapters of consolatory dialogue. The author of this work was inflfluencedby the teachings of Gerard Groote and the Devotio Moderna movement. The parts "Of interior consolation" and "Of theBlessed Sacrament" comprise the last of its four sections. This work opens with the quote, "he who follows me walks not indarkness." For 10 points, name this 15th century Christian devotional which advocates practicing a withdrawn life, attributedto Thomas Â˜A Kempis.
Modern commentaries on this religious text include Eknath Easwaran's Seeing with the Eyes of Love, which analyzes thiswork's chapter "The Wonderful Effect of Divine Love."
The Imitation of Christ [accept De Imitatione Christi, prompt on Thomas Â˜A Kempis]