Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu, Richard Challoner, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, Michael Oakley, Paul M. Bechtel, Joseph N. Tylenda, Elder Mullan, Henri Belleau, Félicité Robert de Lamennais, John Payne, William C. Creasy, Thomas Rogers, Sixtus V Pope, Hal McElwaine Helms, Harold C. Gardiner, Richard Whitford, Edgar Daplyn, David Alexander MacLennan, E. M. Blaiklock, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton, Wilfrid Raynal, Henry Parry Liddon, Jon M. Sweeney, Rev. William Benham, Rev. William Rev. William Benham, Valenti Angelo, Challoner, Leo Sherley-Price, Paul Wesley Chilcote, Pierre Corneille, Thomas Chalmers, George Hickes · first published 1568
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Classic Christian devotional
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A classic, to be sure. Epictetus' style still served as a model for "guide-books" 16+ centuries later. Two of my favorites from the second millenium which bear such influence are Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ (~1420) [1] and Lorenzo Scupoli's The Spiritual Combat (1589) [2], both classics in their own right. [1] https://archive.org/details/imitationofchris012486mbp [2] http://www.ecatholic2000.com/combat/spirit.shtml
on “The Enchiridion, or Manual, of Epictetus” ↗https://librivox.org/the-imitation-of-christ-by-thomas-a-kem... A priest friend recommended Thomas a Kempis to me, and I enjoyed listening to this audiobook version. Yes, it's not for the agnostics or the faint of heart, but it is an amazing explication…
on “Pathologies of the attention economy” ↗…unforgiving. Nature is the route of the shortest path, highly optimised to survive and flourish often at the cost of others and without compassion. Grace balances nature. Some of that is quoted from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (see Book 3, Chapter 54): http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/imitation/imb3c51-59.html...
on “A Gossip App Brought My High School to a Halt” ↗…think, but I can't read him unless I'm in a very particular mindset so I don't have much to cite you. Hm. I looked a bit at some different stuff but the problem is that I can't really recommend e.g. [The Imitation of Christ](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_the_Imitation_of_Christ) unless you're really looking to spend a while with medieval Christianity for its own sake, with the treatment of attention sort of incidental.…
on “Pathologies of the attention economy” ↗…see Mt.Everest after reading this book, I traveled to Everest base camp. 4. Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, for everyone, I don't remember how many I have gifted. 5. Imitation of Christ, I have gifted it, but haven't read it myself. It's in my list. 6. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?” ↗