Editing Geert Groote (section)

==Sources==
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Groot, Gerhard|volume=12|pages=614–615|first=Edward Cuthbert|last=Butler|author-link=Edward Cuthbert Butler}} This work in turn cites:
**[[Thomas à Kempis]], ''Vita Gerardi Magni'' (English translation by J. P. Arthur, ''The Founders of the New Devotion'', 1905)
**''Chronicon Windeshemense'' of Johann Busch (ed. K Grube, 1886).

An account, based on the ''Britannica'' sources, is in S. Kettlewell, ''Thomas à Kempis and the Brothers of Common Life'' (1882), i. c. 5; and a shorter account in F. R. Cruise, ''Thomas à Kempis'', 1887, pt. ii. A sketch, with an account of Groote's writings, is given by L. Schulze in Herzog-Hauck, ''Realencyklopädie'' (ed. 3); he insists on the fact that Groote's theological and ecclesiastical ideas were those commonly current in his day, and that the attempts to make him a "reformer before the Reformation" are unhistorical.{{sfn|Butler|1911|p=615}}