The Imitation of Christ: Illustrated - Paperback

by Thomas À. Kempis (Author), Benham (Translator)

The most beloved Christian devotional after the Bible - now in a newly illustrated edition.

Written in the early fifteenth century, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis has guided souls for more than five hundred years. Tender, searching, and quietly radical, it calls the reader away from the noise of the world and inward toward the life of Christ.

This is a book to be read slowly - a few pages a day - and returned to for a lifetime. Its four short books move from the practical disciplines of the spiritual life, through the inner life of the soul, to the intimate inward voice of Christ, and finally to devotion at the Lord's Table.

This illustrated edition presents the complete, unabridged translation of the Rev. William Benham, with original illustrations opening each of its four Books, set in a clean, classic Garamond interior designed for unhurried reading, with a full table of contents linking all 114 chapters.

A timeless gift for confirmations, baptisms, Lent, and anyone seeking a deeper interior life - and a treasured companion for readers of Catholic and Christian classics.