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240 10 $aTheologia deutsch.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe way of Jesus /$cedited by Tony D'Souza.
260 $aGrand Rapids, Mich. :$bWilliam B. Eerdmans Pub.,$c℗♭2004.
300 $axx, 140 pages ;$c21 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aWritten in the tradition of The Imitation of Christ and Practicing the Presence of God, this anonymous mystical masterpiece has stood as a treasured devotional text for nearly five centuries. The manuscript was discovered in 1516 in a monastic library in Germany and first published under the title Theologia Germanica by Martin Luther, who said of it: "Next to the Bible and St. Augustine, no book has ever come into my hands from which I have learned, or would wish to learn, more of what God, and Christ, and man, and all things are." Consisting of fifty-four short, pithy chapters, The Way of Jesus speaks of the most profound spiritual truths ever given to humanity, yet its language is beguilingly simple. One cannot read these wisdom-infused pages with an open mind and come away unchallenged, or unchanged. Tony D'Souza's modernization of the English text and his informative introduction make this unique devotional work available to a new generation of readers. It will be valued equally by those interested in classic religious texts and those seeking deeper wells of inspiration.
505 00 $g1.$tWhat is perfect and what is imperfect, and how the perfect cannot come until the imperfect is gone --$g2.$tWhat sin is, and how we must not claim any good thing for ourselves, because all good belongs to the true good alone --$g3.$tHow humanity's fall from grace must be amended as Adam's fall was --$g4.$tperson who claims to be good has fallen from grace and usurped the honor of God --$g5.$tWhat the saying "we should be without will, wisdom, love, desire, knowledge ..." means --$g6.$tWe should love the best above everything for no other reason than that it is the best --$g7.$tperson has two spiritual eyes : one looks into eternity and the other looks into time, but only one can work at a time --$g8.$tperson's soul, while it is still in the body, can taste eternal blessedness --$g9.$tIt is better for a person to know what God will do with or through that individual, than to know all that God had ever done, or would ever do, through anybody else. Also, holiness is in God alone and not in the creatures or in any works --$g10.$tPerfect people desire one thing : to be to the eternal goodness what his hand is to people. These people also lose the fear of hell and the hope of heaven --$g11.$tDuring life, a righteous person can be brought into hell and cannot be comforted while there. This person can also be taken out of hell and carried into heaven and cannot be troubled while there --$g12.$tWhat true inward peace is -- the peace that Christ left to his disciples --$g13.$tperson can cast aside external symbols too soon --$g14.$tperson is led upwards in three stages until true perfection is reached --$g15.$tAll are dead in Adam and come alive again in Christ. This is true obedience after disobedience --$g16.$tWhat the old self is and what the new self is --$g17.$tWe are not to take the credit for ourselves when we do well; we are only to take the blame when we do badly --$g18.$tlife of Christ is the noblest and best life that ever has been or can be, and a careless life of false freedom is the worst life that can be --$g19.$tWe cannot come to the true light and to the life of Christ by much questioning, reading, intellectual skill, or reason. We can come to it only by truly renouncing ourselves and all things --$g20.$tnatural self shuns the life of Christ, finding it the bitterest life of all; it always prefers a false, careless life, full of ease and comfort --$g21.$tfriend of Christ willingly performs the outward actions that must and ought to be and does not do anything else --$g22.$tspirit of God (or the devil) can possess and control a person --$g23.$tWhoever wants to submit to God and be obedient to him must be ready to bear with all things. That person must be obedient to God, the self, and all creatures regardless of what must be suffered or done --$g24.$tFour things are necessary before a person can receive divine truth and become possessed by the spirit of God --$g25.$tTwo evil fruits that spring up from the seed of the devil, which are like two sisters who love to live together. One is spiritual pride and the other is false freedom --$g26.$tTrue poverty of spirit and humility, and how to distinguish the lawful free people whom the truth has set free --$g27.$tWhat did Christ mean when he told us to forsake all things and what is union with the divine will? --$g28.$tAfter union with the divine will, the inward person remains unmoving, while the outward person is moved here and there --$g29.$tIt is impossible, before death, not to be affected by outward things --$g30.$tIn what way can we be beyond all customs, laws, and precepts? --$g31.$tWe must not cast aside the life of Christ; we must practice it diligently and walk in it unit the day that we die --$g32.$tGod is true, simple, and perfect good. He is also light, reason, and all that is highest and best and ought to be loved the most by us --$g33.$tperson who shares in God's divinity has pure love, loves all people, and does what is best for them --$g34.$tOne who wants what is the best must renounce individual will. Whoever helps someone to individual will helps that person to the worst possible thing --$g35.$tThere is a deep and true humility and poverty of spirit in a person who shares in the divinity of God --$g36.$tNothing is contrary to God apart from sin, and what sin is --$g37.$tIn God, as God, there is no grief, sorrow, or displeasure, but it is not like this for one who has come to "share in the divinity of God" --$g38.$tWe are to put on the life of Christ for love alone and not for any reward, and we must never neglect or discard it --$g39.$tGod has order, law, and propriety in the created world, because he cannot have them without the created world, and the four kinds of people who are concerned with this order, law, and propriety --$g40.$tMore about the false light --$g41.$tOne who is illuminated with the divine light and inflamed with eternal love shares in the divinity of God, and light and knowledge are nothing without love --$g42.$tquestion : can we know God and not love him? Also, two kinds of light and love -- a true and a false --$g43.$tWhat are the qualities of one who is "made to share in the divinity of God" and what the qualities of a false light and a false free thinker are --$g44.$tonly thing contrary to God is self-will. If we seek our own good for ourselves we can never find it, and of ourselves, we neither know anything nor can we perform any good act --$g45.$tChrist lives where the Christ life is. The Christ life is the best life that has ever been or ever can be --$g46.$tPeace and contentment can be found only in God and not in any creature. Whoever wants to be obedient to God must also be obedient to all the creatures with a long-suffering and compliant attitude, and whoever wants to love God must love all things in the one --$g47.$tIf we are love all things, must we love sin too? --$g48.$tWe must believe in spiritual truth before we can understand or experience it --$g49.$tAbout self-will, and how both Lucifer and Adam fell from grace through self-will --$g50.$tThis temporal world is a paradise and an outer court of heaven. There is only one forbidden fruit : self-will --$g51.$tWhy did God create self-will, seeing that it is so contrary to him? --$g52.$tWhat Christ meant by, "no one comes to the father except through me" --$g53.$tWhat Christ meant by, "no one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him" --$g54.$tDo not seek your own good either in spiritual or natural things, but seek the honor of God alone, and enter into eternal life by the right door, which is Christ.
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