The Imitation of Christ
The classic of Christian ascetical literature, written in the early fifteenth century and, after the Bible, the most widely read book in Christendom. Four books lead the reader from interior renunciation to Holy Communion. The Latin is Hermann Gerlach's edition (Herder, 1909); the English is the modern translation of Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton (Bruce, 1940).
Contents
Source: The text of the four books only. Gerlach's "Considerationes" (parallel passages from Thomas's other opuscula) and their footnotes, his preface and the index are not included; the 1909 section numbers are dropped and each section is a paragraph. The scan's OCR errors were corrected by script and by comparison with Pohl's 1904 edition (archive.org operaomniaimitat0000thom) and thelatinlibrary.com; some may remain. The "Vox discipuli"/"Vox dilecti" speaker rubrics of Book IV are kept in italics. · Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org) · Portuguese text of the four books with the source's footnotes.