Thomas à Kempis, CRV (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471; German: Thomas von Kempen; Dutch: Thomas van Kempen) was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the late...
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The Imitation of Christ (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, is a Christian devotional book first composed in Medieval Latin as De Imitatione Christi (c. 1418–1427)....
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French preposition à and has evolved into the at sign (@). Sometimes, it is part of a surname: Thomas à Kempis, Mary Anne à Beckett. À is used in Emilian...
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1676), composer Joannes Florentius a Kempis (1635 – c.1711), Baroque composer, son of Nicholaus à Kempis Thomas à Kempis (c.1380 – 1471), late Medieval Catholic...
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previous spiritual writers such as Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Ávila, Thomas à Kempis and Dom Chautard. Pedro Rodriguez who wrote the critical edition of...
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Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher...
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2010 Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (via Oxford Reference) à Kempis, Thomas. "Book 1 Chapter 3". Imitation of Christ: translated from Latin into...
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Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social...
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Mortification of the flesh (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
ISBN 9780810870826. Samuel weighed the pros and cons of Thomas à Kempis on the mortification of the flesh with Samuel taking a moderate position between two extremes....
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is most known today through its influence on Thomas à Kempis, the author of The Imitation of Christ, a book which has proved highly influential for centuries...
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Geert Groote (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Kettlewell, Thomas à Kempis and the Brothers of Common Life (1882), i. c. 5; and a shorter account in F. R. Cruise, Thomas à Kempis, 1887, pt. ii. A sketch...
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Newfoundland off North America) by João Vaz Corte-Real. First printing of Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) probably concludes...
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preferable is good". The modern formulation was popularized by Thomas à Kempis' devotional book The Imitation of Christ written in early 15th century....
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both Latin and Portuguese and to have read and become fascinated with Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ. In 1595, Tadaoki's life was in danger because...
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and advocated a path of poverty and preaching like Jesus who was poor at birth in the manger and died naked on the cross. Thomas à Kempis, on the other...
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15th-century book by the German cleric Thomas à Kempis. A few modernized and paraphrased Bible translations use it as a translation of Proverbs 19:21, but...
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justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471), German-Dutch Catholic canon regular and author Thomas Keneally (born 1935), Australian novelist...
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the resignation of The Imitation of Christ, a fifteenth-century Christian devotional work by Thomas à Kempis. Des Esseintes' library includes authors of...
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Brethren of the Common Life (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Many famous men attended their schools, including Nicholas of Cusa, Thomas à Kempis, and Erasmus, all of whom studied at the Brethren's school at Deventer...
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15th century in literature (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
Charite 1425 Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi – Zafar Nama (history of Timur) 1427 Thomas à Kempis – The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) (approximate date...
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Thomas Aquinas OP (/əˈkwaɪnəs/, ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and...
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book by Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, but reoriented for the purposes of the developing Church of England. Parr envisaged it as a private...
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Ignatius of Loyola (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
synonymous with the English term gentleman, which denotes a man of good family. See Thomas Rochford, title=St. Ignatius Loyola: the pilgrim and man of...
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translation of Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ is published . An edition of Euripides' Tragoediae is published. Niccolò Machiavelli A Description...
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recommended reading page on his website listing specific titles by Thomas a Kempis, William Law, Frank Laubach, William Wilberforce, Richard Baxter, Charles...
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poem the Davidiad in 1952, his Latin-Croatian literary translation of Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ in 1989, and the Glasgow Codex in 1995, continue...
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St. Ignatius of Loyola, Thomas à Kempis and compares them with experience of Orthodox saints of the first centuries. Professor A.I. Osipov analyzes teachings...
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hospital. During this time he discovered The Imitation of Christ of Thomas à Kempis, the crown jewel of the "devotio moderna", which however gave little...
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Zwolle (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
which Thomas à Kempis spent the greatest part of his life and died (in 1471). At least as early as 1911, Zwolle had a considerable trade by river, a large...
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Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) Desiderius Erasmus (1469–1536) Martin Luther (1483–1546) Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) Thomas...
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