Fr. Billy highlights how today's Christians can interpret and apply The Imitation to their own spiritual journeys with the help of William Creasy's accessible translation. Billy opens each chapter with a brief introduction and completes them with reflection questions to help readers apply the text to their lives.

This classic is made newly accessible with the addition of commentary to both aid in understanding the text and to illuminate Teresa of Avila's impressive spiritual lessons. Questions help readers to understand themselves and to reflect on the impact of her insights to their own lives. Readers will recognize the intrinsic worth of Teresa of Avila's teaching and see it as a viable way of understanding the interior life and deepening one's awareness of God. Classics with Commentary, a series in the Christian Classics line devoted to rediscovering classic Christian literature, mines the depths...