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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Thomas Merton. monk , and we are familiar with the argument that the monastery is a kind of dynamo which , though it does not " produce " grace , procures this infinitely precious spiritual commodity for the world . The first Fathers of ...
Thomas Merton. monk , and we are familiar with the argument that the monastery is a kind of dynamo which , though it does not " produce " grace , procures this infinitely precious spiritual commodity for the world . The first Fathers of ...
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... monastery aims to create an atmosphere most favorable for selflessness . If some of the monks make a bad use of their portunity and become selfish , it is because they have physically left " the world " while bringing its spirit with ...
... monastery aims to create an atmosphere most favorable for selflessness . If some of the monks make a bad use of their portunity and become selfish , it is because they have physically left " the world " while bringing its spirit with ...
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... monastery , says Cassian , is lived " under the sacrament of the Cross " ( sub crucis sacramento ) . * But to live in the mystery of the Cross is to live in union with Christ in His " obedience unto death , even the death of the Cross ...
... monastery , says Cassian , is lived " under the sacrament of the Cross " ( sub crucis sacramento ) . * But to live in the mystery of the Cross is to live in union with Christ in His " obedience unto death , even the death of the Cross ...
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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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