Mixed Life

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Walter Hilton

ISBN: 978-0-7283-0156-6

LENGTH: 36 pages

Fairacres Publications 138

2001

Clear, practical advice for Christians trying to balance duty to others with prayer and contemplation. The supreme example of the ‘mixed life’ is Christ himself.

Walter Hilton (c.1343-96) offers clear and practical advice for Christians trying to balance their duty towards others with a drawing towards prayer and contemplation. He says that there is no fixed order of priority in these things, and Christ himself gives us the supreme example of the ‘mixed life’. A fresh translation into modern English.

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ISBN

978-0-7283-0156-6

Length

36 pages

Author

Walter Hilton

ISSN

0307-1405

Book Size

140 x 210 mm

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Author Bio

Walter Hilton was born c. 1340-5. Little is known of his life, but it is believed that he studied at Cambridge, pursued a legal and administrative career, attempted the solitary life, and finally discovered his true vocation as an Augustinian Canon Regular. His spiritual writings were in English and Latin: the best known is the ‘Scale of Perfection’. He also wrote ‘Angels’ Song’, ‘Mixed Life’, commentaries on Psalm texts, and a number of letters of spiritual guidance, and translated ‘Eight Chapters on Perfection’. He died at the Priory of St Peter at Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire in 1396.

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