This famous work is a cornerstone of Lutheran devotional literature and also an essential contribution to the Protestant Reformation.

True Christianity is his principal mystical work and one of the most important in the Protestant tradition. He published the first book of this work, which is presented here, in 1605.

The book emerged as a seminal text within the burgeoning Pietistic movement, contextualized by an increasingly secularized Europe and a Christian orthodoxy perceived as spiritually hollow.

This book went through a number of editions in Germany, and has been translated into dozens of languages.

This book went through a number of editions in Germany, and has been translated into dozens of languages.

True Christianity is his principal mystical work and one of the most important in the Protestant tradition. He published the first book of this work, which is presented here, in 1605.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.