Meeting the Master in the Garden How Jesus Cultivates Our Soul
by A Kempis, Thomas; Griffin, WilliamFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-01
Publisher(s): Crossroad
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Summary
Thomas A Kempis' The Imitation of Christ is the most widely read book in the West (after the Bible). A Kempis also wrote a stunning meditation series on spiritual life. In Meeting the Master in the Garden, Griffin completes his translation trilogy of Imitation, Consolations for My Soul and this final volume. With entertaining sidebars to guide us, this book will join Imitation and Consolations as a must-read for Christians seeking a deeper life
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 11 |
| Garden of Roses | |
| Clinging | p. 17 |
| Thoroughly Modern Clinging | p. 19 |
| Listening | p. 21 |
| New to Monasticism | p. 24 |
| Seeking | p. 26 |
| When Kempis Was New to Monasticism | p. 27 |
| Struggling | p. 30 |
| Acquiring | p. 33 |
| Sources of Wisdom | p. 34 |
| Hearing | p. 36 |
| Consoling | p. 39 |
| Rejoicing | p. 41 |
| Festivals | p. 43 |
| Humbling | p. 45 |
| Pessimism or Optimism | p. 48 |
| Returning | p. 50 |
| Falling | p. 53 |
| Roses in Scripture | p. 55 |
| Praying | p. 57 |
| War | p. 60 |
| Reading | p. 62 |
| Another Way of Copying the Bible | p. 65 |
| Loving | p. 68 |
| Caritas and Agape | p. 72 |
| Watching | p. 74 |
| Hauling | p. 76 |
| Staying | p. 80 |
| Legend of St. Agnes | p. 85 |
| Neighboring | p. 87 |
| Devotion to St. Agnes | p. 92 |
| Praising | p. 94 |
| Valley of Lilies | |
| Prolog | p. 101 |
| Working in the Garden | p. 103 |
| God in the Garden | p. 105 |
| Praising God in Poverty | p. 109 |
| Jesus in the Garden | p. 111 |
| Putting Souls to the Test | p. 115 |
| Parables in the Garden | p. 116 |
| Loving the Silly and the Serious | p. 119 |
| Colors | p. 120 |
| Thanking for Every Good Thing | p. 124 |
| Conforming with the Cross | p. 126 |
| Proverbs | p. 127 |
| Walking with the Pure Soul | p. 129 |
| Speaking Nonstop with God | p. 131 |
| Lilies in Scripture | p. 132 |
| Recollecting the Heart | p. 134 |
| Guarding against Temptation | p. 136 |
| Pride and Greed | p. 138 |
| Fearing Eternal Punishment | p. 141 |
| Using the Lord's Passion as a Weapon | p. 143 |
| Mourning | p. 145 |
| Invoking Jesus and Mary | p. 147 |
| Corpus Christi and Eucharistic Devotion | p. 150 |
| Battling against the Vices | p. 152 |
| Flagellation | p. 154 |
| Keeping a Steady Hand | p. 157 |
| Consoling the Down-and-Out | p. 159 |
| Putting Conscience on a Leash | p. 162 |
| Silence and Sound | p. 165 |
| Keeping One's Distance | p. 167 |
| A Seasoning for All Seasons | p. 172 |
| Possessing Nothing | p. 173 |
| Rich Man, Poor Man | p. 175 |
| Possessing Everything | p. 179 |
| Understanding Sacred Scripture | p. 182 |
| Talking Straight | p. 187 |
| Clothes | p. 188 |
| Fleeing Vices | p. 191 |
| Hurting the One You Want to Heal | p. 193 |
| Facing Uncertain Death | p. 197 |
| Death | p. 201 |
| Deferring Everything to God | p. 204 |
| Singing with the Saints and Angels | p. 208 |
| Praying for Help | p. 210 |
| Uniting with God | p. 212 |
| Seeking True Peace | p. 215 |
| Relying on God Alone | p. 218 |
| Doing the Best I Can | p. 221 |
| Keeping Good Company | p. 223 |
| Guardian Angels | p. 228 |
| Wandering and Squandering | p. 231 |
| Afterword | |
| Who Was Kempis? | p. 237 |
| Who Owns Kempis? | p. 239 |
| Kempis and the Bible | p. 240 |
| Devotio Moderna | p. 243 |
| Translation, Literal or Paraphrasal | p. 247 |
| Kempis's Chapter Titles | p. 249 |
| Bibliography | p. 253 |
| About the Translator | p. 257 |
| A Word from the Editor | p. 258 |
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