The Reformation · 1555
The Sinner's Guide
Luis de Granada · 1504–1588
What it is
Motives for turning to God and a rule of life for those who do, addressed to people fully occupied with business, marriage, and property.
Why it lasted
Placed on the Index in 1559 for making the interior life too available to the laity, revised, and then read across Catholic Europe for centuries.
Where to read it
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