Tauler, a Dominican of Strassburg, belonged to a society known as The Friends of God.

[Sidenote: Tauler c.

1300-61] Of all his contemporaries he in religion was the most social and practical.

His life was that of an evangelist, preaching to laymen in their own vernacular the gospel of a pure life and direct communion with God through the Bible and prayer.
Like many other popular preachers he placed great emphasis on conversion, the turning (_Kehr_) from a bad to a good life.

Simple faith is held to be better than knowledge or than the usual works of ecclesiastical piety.