Toward a Perfect Love: The Spiritual Counsel of Walter Hilton

Surprisingly warm and practical, this 600-year-old insight into daily work and devotion is from a man described as "one of those hidden figures, those quiet and secret friends of God who have never failed the church."

A contemporary of John Wycliffe in the 1300s, Walter Hilton was a common and ordinary man in north-country England whose down-to-earth writings gained popularity among both layfolk and churchmen.

Editor David L. Jeffrey calls him "one of the great psychologists of Christian sp...