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The fruit of the spiritual journey of a ‘friend of God' who, totally unfettered, devoted himself to God alone, the preaching of Johannes Tauler (1300-1361) is a voyage to the farthest reaches of time and eternity. These ‘Sermons' are impregnated with his humble profession of faith. Expressing a constantly renewed abandonment to the ‘love of Christ that surpasses all understanding', they are a veritable peregrination to the inmost depths of the human soul, wherein the Kingdom of God truly resides. Jean Tauler invites each one of us, hence the inner man, to perceive the hereafter through the prism of his imagery. Preached in the Rhine Valley at a time when the ‘Black Death' decimated all in its path, the ‘Sermons' do not display the stigma of the ‘Late Middle Ages', but testify to the outlook of a free man who forges ahead.