• Devotio Moderna (Latin; lit., Modern Devotion) was a movement for religious reform, calling for apostolic renewal through the rediscovery of genuine pious...
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  • Gerson. The Brethren's confraternity is the best known fruits of the "Devotio Moderna", (the Modern Devotion), a lifestyle and undogmatic form of piety which...
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    Geert Groote (category Devotio Moderna)
    founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. He was a key figure in the Devotio Moderna movement. He was born in the Hanseatic city Deventer in the Bishopric...
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    who select and sort boys for monkhood. He was exposed there to the Devotio moderna movement and the Brethren's famous book The Imitation of Christ but...
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    Thomas à Kempis (category Devotio Moderna)
    Van Engen, John (2013). Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages. University of Pennsylvania...
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    John of Ruysbroeck, Catherine of Siena and Catherine of Genoa, the Devotio Moderna, and such books as the Theologia Germanica, The Cloud of Unknowing...
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    The Imitation of Christ (category Devotio Moderna)
    Imitation of Christ is a handbook for the spiritual life arising from the Devotio Moderna movement, which Thomas followed. The Imitation is perhaps the most...
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    such individuals as Catherine of Siena and Catherine of Genoa, the Devotio Moderna, and such books as the Theologia Germanica, The Cloud of Unknowing...
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    such as the German evangelicals and Pietists in Pennsylvania, the Devotio Moderna movement, and the Methodist Revival in England are seen by modern scholars...
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    Tauler Walter Hilton The Cloud of Unknowing Heinrich Seuse Geert Groote Devotio Moderna Julian of Norwich Thomas à Kempis Nicholas of Cusa Marsilio Ficino...
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