Nachfolge Christi
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Zugeschrieben (Urheberschaft umstritten)
- Zustand des Textes:
- Kein Scanrauschen festgestellt (automatische Messung über den ganzen Text, nicht von Hand geprüft)
- Umfang:
- ~64.800 Wörter · 308 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APAThomas von Kempen. (n.d.). The Imitation of Christ [Nachfolge Christi]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/thomas-a-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ
- MLAThomas von Kempen. The Imitation of Christ [Nachfolge Christi]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/thomas-a-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ.
- ChicagoThomas von Kempen. The Imitation of Christ [Nachfolge Christi]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/thomas-a-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ.
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Wovon es handelt
Die Nachfolge Christi (um 1420).
Kontext und Geschichte
Nach der Bibel das meistgedruckte christliche Buch der Geschichte. Vier kurze Traktate der devotio moderna: das innere Leben, das Misstrauen gegen ein Wissen, das nicht besser macht, und die Eucharistie. Die Zuschreibung an Thomas von Kempen ist die anerkannteste, aber nicht einhellig. Gelesen haben es Ignatius von Loyola, Thomas Morus und, Jahrhunderte später, ganz und gar undevote Leute.
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3. The greater and more complete thy knowledge, the more severely shalt thou be judged, unless thou hast lived holily. Therefore be not lifted up by any skill or knowledge that thou hast; but rather fear concerning the knowledge which is given to thee. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not. Be not high-minded, but rather confess thine ignorance. Why desirest thou to lift thyself above another, when there are found many more learned and more skilled in the Scripture than thou? If thou wilt know and learn anything with profit, love to be thyself unknown and to be counted for nothing. 4. That is the highest and most profitable lesson, when a man truly knoweth and judgeth lowly of himself. To account nothing of one’s self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. Even shouldest thou see thy neighbor sin openly or grievously, yet thou oughtest not to reckon thyself better than he, for thou knowest not how long thou shalt keep thine integrity. All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself. CHAPTER III Of the knowledge of truth CHAPTER III Of the knowledge of truth Happy is the man whom Truth by itself doth teach, not by figures and transient words, but as it is in itself.(1) Our own judgment and feelings often deceive us, and we discern but little of the truth. What doth it profit to argue about hidden and dark things, concerning which we shall not be even reproved in the judgment, because we knew them not? Oh, grievous folly, to neglect the things which are profitable and necessary, and to give our minds to things which are curious and hurtful! Having eyes, we see not. 2. And what have we to do with talk about genus and species! He to whom the Eternal Word speaketh is free from multiplied questionings.…