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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... ideal and of the excellence of this particular way of life , we nowhere mean to give the impression that the monastic Orders are by their very na- ture superior to other religious institutes for , after all , the chief dignity of the ...
... ideal and of the excellence of this particular way of life , we nowhere mean to give the impression that the monastic Orders are by their very na- ture superior to other religious institutes for , after all , the chief dignity of the ...
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... ideal " is attained , is experienced , is grasped and possessed , not in a mental image but in the present and concrete and existential re- ality of our life . The victory of monastic hu- mility is a triumph of life in which , by the in ...
... ideal " is attained , is experienced , is grasped and possessed , not in a mental image but in the present and concrete and existential re- ality of our life . The victory of monastic hu- mility is a triumph of life in which , by the in ...
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... ideal . Indeed , we know it is quite possible for a man to lay down his life to bear witness to his own will and to his own illusions . But the true and complete renunciation of ourselves is demanded by the monastic life . Even if our ...
... ideal . Indeed , we know it is quite possible for a man to lay down his life to bear witness to his own will and to his own illusions . But the true and complete renunciation of ourselves is demanded by the monastic life . Even if our ...
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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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