Just finished Thomas a Kempis' 15th century devotional manual, The Imitation of Christ

I first came across a mention of The Imitation of Christ while I was reading Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry a few years back. In that book, there's a throwaway mention of a student being thrown out of an evangelical Bible college for keeping a copy of it in his room (because it's a Papist text, obv). I'd never heard of the book before, so I googled it and…