Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection (Classics of Western Spirituality) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809131943 ISBN 13: 9780809131945

Publisher: Paulist Press, 1990

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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.

Language Notes

Text: English

Edition details

• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0809131943
• ISBN 13: 9780809131945
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368