The Silent Life

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 25.05.2010 - 192 Seiten

Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside . . . who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old." It is a remarkable work-one that combines a lucid and informative description of the nature and forms of monasticism, communal and solitary, with a passionate defense of the contemplative's quest for God. The intense beauty of Merton's meditation, radiating from beneath its surface calm, makes The Silent Life a classic of its kind.

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THE MONASTIC PEACE
1
In Veritate In Truth
21
In Tabernaculo Altissimi In
34
In Unitate In Unity
47
The Benedictines 639
56
THE CENOBITIC LIFE
59
The Cistercians
95
THE HERMIT LIFE
127
The Camaldolese
144
Index
177
Urheberrecht

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Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, is perhaps the foremost spiritual thinker of the twentiethcentury. His diaries, social commentary, and spiritual writings continue to be widely read after his untimely death in 1968.

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