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The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted
In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders.
The texts are first-rate, and the introductions are informative and reliable. The books will be a welcome addition to the bookshelf of every literate religious persons". -- The Christian Century
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Editor of This Volume | p. ix |
| Author of the Preface | p. x |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Foreword To the Christian Reader | p. 21 |
| What the Image of God in Man Is | p. 29 |
| What the Fall of Adam Is | p. 33 |
| How Man is Once Again Renewed to Eternal Life in Christ | p. 37 |
| What True Repentance and the Proper Yoke and Cross of Christ Are | p. 41 |
| What True Faith Is | p. 45 |
| God's Word Must Demonstrate Its Power in Man through Faith and Become Living | p. 49 |
| How the Law of God is Written in the Hearts of All Men and Convinces Them Each Day That They Have No Excuse before Him | p. 52 |
| Without True Repentance No One Will Have Consolation in Christ and His Merits | p. 55 |
| By Present Unchristian Activity Christ and True Faith is Denied | p. 60 |
| The Life of the Present Children of This World is Completely Set against Christ and Therefore It is a False Life and a False Christianity | p. 62 |
| He Who Does Not Follow Christ in His Life is Not Truly Repentant, is No Christian, and is Not the Child of God. What the New Birth Is, and What the Yoke of Christ Is | p. 64 |
| A True Christian Must Die to Himself and the World and Live in Christ | p. 70 |
| For the Love of Christ and for the Eternal Future Glory for Which We Are Created and Redeemed Each Christian is to Willingly Die to Himself and the World | p. 74 |
| A True Christian Must Hate His Own Life in This World and Learn to Despise the World According to the Example of Christ | p. 78 |
| In a True Christian the Old Man Must Daily Die and the New Man Daily Be Renewed. What It Means to Deny Oneself. What the True Cross of a Christian Is | p. 83 |
| In a True Christian There Must at All Times Be a Battle between the Spirit and the Flesh | p. 87 |
| A Christian's Inheritance and Goods Are Not in This World. Therefore, Christians Are to Use Temporal Things as If They Were Guests Here | p. 90 |
| God is Highly Incensed If One Places Temporal Things before Eternal Things. How and Why We Are Not to Cling to Creatures with Our Hearts | p. 95 |
| The Person Who is Most Wretched in His Heart is Most Beloved of God. a Man Seeks the Grace of God through Christian Knowledge | p. 99 |
| By True Christian Sorrow Life is Daily Made Better, Man is Directed toward the Kingdom of God and Promoted to Eternal Life | p. 104 |
| Concerning True, Proper Worship | p. 110 |
| A True Christian Can Be Known in No Way Better Than by Love and the Daily Renewal of His Life. He is as the Branch of a Tree | p. 117 |
| A Man Who Wishes to Grow and Mature in Christ Must Reject All Worldly Company | p. 120 |
| On the Love of God and Neighbor | p. 123 |
| On the Love of Neighbor in Particular | p. 129 |
| Why Our Neighbor is to Be Loved | p. 132 |
| Why One Must Love One's Enemies | p. 137 |
| How and Why the Love of the Creator is to Precede All Creaturely Love. How the Neighbor is to Be Loved in God | p. 141 |
| On the Forgiveness of the Neighbor, Without Which God Draws Back His Grace | p. 144 |
| On the Fruits of Love | p. 145 |
| Self-Love and Self-Honor Corrupt and Bring to Nothing the Highest and Most Beautiful Gifts of Man | p. 150 |
| Great Gifts Do Not Indicate a Christian and a Man Pleasing to God, but Faith That is Active through Love Does | p. 151 |
| God Does Not Look upon Works or upon a Person but Judges Works According to the Heart | p. 152 |
| A Man Can Do Nothing for His Holiness. God Alone Brings It about If Man Only Gives Himself to God, to His Grace, and Allows God to Act with Him as a Physician Acts with a Sick Man. the Merit of Christ is Not Imputed to Anyone without Repentance | p. 153 |
| Without a Holy Christian Life, All Wisdom, Art and Other Knowledge, Indeed, All Learning of All of the Holy Scripture, is Useless | p. 154 |
| The Person Who Does Not Live in Christ but Clings with His Heart to the World Has Only the External Letters of the Scripture and Does Not Taste the Power and the Inner Manna | p. 155 |
| He Who Does Not Follow Christ with Faith, a Holy Life, and Continual Repentance Cannot Be Redeemed Because of the Blindness of His Heart but Must Remain in Eternal Darkness. He Cannot Know Christ Properly nor Can He Have a Part in Him or in His Community | p. 162 |
| The Unchristian Life is the Cause of False, Misleading Doctrine, Hardness of Heart, and Blindness. on the Eternal Election | p. 169 |
| The Purity of Teaching and of the Divine Word is Not Maintained Alone with Disputations and Many Books but Also with True Repentance and Holy Life | p. 173 |
| Some Beautiful Rules for a Christian Life | p. 178 |
| Proper Summation of the First Book. the Whole of Christianity Consists in the Reestablishment of the Image of God in Man and the Rooting out of the Image of Satan in Him | p. 184 |
| Conclusion and the Chief Reasons for the Order of the First Book. How a Man is to Protect Himself against Spiritual Pride and How No True, Spiritual Gift Can Be Received without Prayer | p. 195 |
| Index to Introduction | p. 283 |
| Index to Text | p. 285 |
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ISBN: 9780809121922
ISBN-10: 0809121921
Series: Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback)
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 301
Published: 12th December 1979
Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 15.3
x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.422
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