The Silent LifeFarrar, 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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... Christian family . The monk puts these things aside , though they may be good . He travels to God by the direct path ... Christians have been exempt from anxiety over this apparent " uselessness " of the monk , and we are familiar with ...
... Christian family . The monk puts these things aside , though they may be good . He travels to God by the direct path ... Christians have been exempt from anxiety over this apparent " uselessness " of the monk , and we are familiar with ...
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... nothing but the life of those who have taken the first command- ment in deadly earnest , and have , in the words of St Benedict , " preferred nothing to the love of Christ . " But Who is God ? Where is He ? Is ix PROLOGUE.
... nothing but the life of those who have taken the first command- ment in deadly earnest , and have , in the words of St Benedict , " preferred nothing to the love of Christ . " But Who is God ? Where is He ? Is ix PROLOGUE.
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Thomas Merton. But Who is God ? Where is He ? Is Christian monasticism a search for some pure intuition of the ... Christ Jesus " ( 2 Corinthians 4 : 6 ) . The monastic life is the rejection of all that obstructs the spiritual rays of ...
Thomas Merton. But Who is God ? Where is He ? Is Christian monasticism a search for some pure intuition of the ... Christ Jesus " ( 2 Corinthians 4 : 6 ) . The monastic life is the rejection of all that obstructs the spiritual rays of ...
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... Christ , a life in which the Christian gives himself entirely to the love of God which transforms him in the light of Christ . " The Lord is a Spirit , and where the Spirit of the Lord is , there is liberty . But we all , behold- ing ...
... Christ , a life in which the Christian gives himself entirely to the love of God which transforms him in the light of Christ . " The Lord is a Spirit , and where the Spirit of the Lord is , there is liberty . But we all , behold- ing ...
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... Christians in the world , or painting the image of Christ the Ruler of all for a parish or community , the monk has his face turned toward the desert . His ears are attuned not to the echoes of the aposto- late that storms the city of ...
... Christians in the world , or painting the image of Christ the Ruler of all for a parish or community , the monk has his face turned toward the desert . His ears are attuned not to the echoes of the aposto- late that storms the city of ...
Inhalt
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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 |
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