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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... mysterious light . The monk is one who leaves behind the fictions and illusions of a merely human spir- ituality in order to plunge himself in the faith of Christ . Faith is the light which illumines him in mystery . Faith is the power ...
... mysterious light . The monk is one who leaves behind the fictions and illusions of a merely human spir- ituality in order to plunge himself in the faith of Christ . Faith is the light which illumines him in mystery . Faith is the power ...
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... mystery of a life so rich in the mercy and the goodness of God . In these pages , we shall first consider some of the main aspects of the monastic life as such , and then go on to speak of the more important monastic Orders that ...
... mystery of a life so rich in the mercy and the goodness of God . In these pages , we shall first consider some of the main aspects of the monastic life as such , and then go on to speak of the more important monastic Orders that ...
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... mysterious battle , of which the battle in the world is only a pale reflection . The monastic Church is the Church of the wilderness , the woman who has fled into the desert from the dragon that seeks to devour the infant Word . She is ...
... mysterious battle , of which the battle in the world is only a pale reflection . The monastic Church is the Church of the wilderness , the woman who has fled into the desert from the dragon that seeks to devour the infant Word . She is ...
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... Mystery of the divine silence , and prays while the great bat- tle is being fought between earth and heaven . Her flight is not an evasion . If the monk were able to understand what goes on inside him , he would be able to say how well ...
... Mystery of the divine silence , and prays while the great bat- tle is being fought between earth and heaven . Her flight is not an evasion . If the monk were able to understand what goes on inside him , he would be able to say how well ...
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... mysterious way , my own self . But then , again , if He and I are one , then is there an " I " that can rejoice in having found Him ? God , says philosophy , is both immanent and transcendent I THE MONASTIC PEACE Puritas Cordis [Purity ...
... mysterious way , my own self . But then , again , if He and I are one , then is there an " I " that can rejoice in having found Him ? God , says philosophy , is both immanent and transcendent I THE MONASTIC PEACE Puritas Cordis [Purity ...
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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