Imitation of Christ

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.