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Imitation of Christ

  • 02-07-2007 4:31pm
    #1
    DerryRed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 472 ✭✭


    Has anyone ever read the book "Imitation of Christ".

    Can anyone recommend a good english translation, that is easy to follow?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    barrett1965
    Closed Accounts Posts: 178 ✭✭barrett1965


    I can't say I've read it in full, but I do dip into to it from time-to-time. My copy is a part of a few books I own dealing with practical spirituality.

    The translation I own is by E. M. Blaiklock.


  • #3
    hivizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭hivizman


    I read it years ago - the edition I have is the Penguin classics edition [published in 1973] translated by Leo Sherley-Price - I've looked on Amazon and it's still available.


  • #4
    donaghs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,824 ✭✭✭donaghs


    I remember in Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London he meets an Irish Catholic tramp called Paddy: "Another time, when I was looking into a bookshop window, he grew very perturbed
    because one of the books was called OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST. He took
    this for blasphemy. 'What de hell do dey want to go imitatin' of HIM for?'
    he demanded angrily.


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