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| Predicate | Object |
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| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:book
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| gptkbp:author |
gptkb:Thomas_à_Kempis
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| gptkbp:category |
gptkb:Christian_literature
Catholic spirituality 15th-century books |
| gptkbp:countryOfOrigin |
gptkb:Germany
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| gptkbp:genre |
Christian devotional literature
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Imitation of Christ
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| gptkbp:influenced |
gptkb:Aldous_Huxley
gptkb:C.S._Lewis gptkb:Dietrich_Bonhoeffer gptkb:Eastern_Orthodoxy gptkb:George_Eliot gptkb:John_Henry_Newman gptkb:John_Wesley gptkb:Leo_Tolstoy gptkb:Pope_Francis gptkb:Pope_John_Paul_II gptkb:Protestantism gptkb:Thérèse_of_Lisieux gptkb:Teresa_of_Ávila gptkb:Saint_Ignatius_of_Loyola gptkb:Thomas_More gptkb:John_Newton gptkb:Pope_John_Paul_I Catholic Church |
| gptkbp:language |
gptkb:Latin
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| gptkbp:mediaType |
gptkb:book
gptkb:manuscript digital |
| gptkbp:movement |
gptkb:Devotio_Moderna
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| gptkbp:notableQuote |
“All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.”
“Without the Way, there is no going; without the Truth, there is no knowing; without the Life, there is no living.” “If you wish to learn and appreciate something worth while, then love to be unknown and considered as nothing.” “At the Day of Judgment we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.” |
| gptkbp:popularFor |
one of the most widely read Christian devotional books
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| gptkbp:publicationDate |
circa 1418–1427
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| gptkbp:publisher |
various
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| gptkbp:structure |
four books
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| gptkbp:subject |
Christian spirituality
devotion to Christ |
| gptkbp:theme |
gptkb:Eucharist
suffering humility love of God obedience sacraments contemplation self-denial inner peace detachment from the world following Christ |
| gptkbp:translatedInto |
English translation by Richard Whitford
English translation by William Atkinson French translation by Pierre Corneille German translation by Johannes Gerson English translation by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Vows_of_Poverty
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
5
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