born in Kempen, Germany.
He attended a school near Deventer in Holland.
Thomas
of Kempen, as he was known at school, was so impressed by his teachers that he decided
to live his own life according to their ideals. When he was 19, he entered the monastery
of Mount St. Agnes and spent the rest of his long life behind the walls of that
monastery. Thomas wrote a number of sermons, letters, hymns, and lives of the saints.
The most famous of his works, by far, is The Imitation of Christ, a charming
instruction on how to love God. The Imitation of Christ has come to be, after
the Bible, the most widely translated book in Christian literature.
DR.
ROSALIE DE ROSSET is a professor of Literature, English and Homiletics at Moody
Bible Institute where she has been for forty-two years.
She earned her M.A. in
English from Northeastern Illinois University, M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity
School, and Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric from The University of Illinois
at Chicago. In addition to teaching, she regularly appears on Moody Broadcasting
Network programs as a guest and co-host, and speaks at conferences and seminars.
She lives on the northside of Chicago.