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Walter Hilton (d. 1396) was an English Augustinian mystic. He attended Cambridge University, and at some point, probably before 1386, he rejected the legal and administrative career available to him and retired from the world as a hermit. Later he decided that his true vocation was not to the heremitic life, but to a religious order. According to manuscript tradition, Hilton died as an Augustinian Canon Regular in the priory of St. Peter at Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire. His spiritual writings were widely influential during the fifteenth century in England.
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This review is from: Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection (Classics of Western Spirituality) (Hardcover)
Walter Hilton's massive undertaking (the first thorough treatment of ascetic theology in the English language) is as rewarding for those today as in his own era - and a careful reading makes one realise that he was treating many of the same difficulties we would find in our own time. This is by no means light reading, but the lawyer's mind, theologian's precision, and pastoral father's homely charm are a winning combination. (How can anyone resist one who, after giving an explanation of sin so with the lawyer's accuracy that one nearly searches for the section on plea bargaining, then tenderly reassures his reader that God is most generous with forgiveness or "heaven would be much too empty?)I would recommend it (if not require it) of anyone with an interest either in ascetic theology or fourteenth century England.
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One of the great books of Christian piety.,
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Author Peter Ackroyd (The Life of Thomas More) says that Hitlton's "Scale of Perfection" and Kempas'"Imitation of Christ" are part of the broad tradition of late medieval Christian piety. Both books played a central part of Thomas More's life. Scale of Perfection is concerend with the active Chrictian life in the world. Hilton also wrote a volume entitled "The Mixed Life."
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For those serious about growing in the spiritual life, Walter Hilton is a must. Not everything will speak to every person but there is much to be gained from a slow, careful, and prayerful reading.
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Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, Jesus Christ, Qui Habitat, Peter Lombard, Benjamin Minor, Epistola de Lectione, Mixed Life, John of the Cross, William Flete, Mary Magdalene, Gilbert of Hoyland, Lord God, The Cloud of Unknowing, Benjamin Major, Richard Rolle, Eight Chapters, Middle English, Persons of the Trinity, Incendium Amoris, Jesus God, Middle Ages, After Bernard, Ioannis Evangelium, Jesum Christum New!
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Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, Jesus Christ, Qui Habitat, Peter Lombard, Benjamin Minor, Epistola de Lectione, Mixed Life, John of the Cross, William Flete, Mary Magdalene, Gilbert of Hoyland, Lord God, The Cloud of Unknowing, Benjamin Major, Richard Rolle, Eight Chapters, Middle English, Persons of the Trinity, Incendium Amoris, Jesus God, Middle Ages, After Bernard, Ioannis Evangelium, Jesum Christum New!
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