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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Seite xi
... alone , poor , in silence . Why ? Because of what he believes . He believes the word of Christ , Who has prom- ised : " There is no man who has left house or parents or brethren or wife or children for the Kingdom xi PROLOGUE.
... alone , poor , in silence . Why ? Because of what he believes . He believes the word of Christ , Who has prom- ised : " There is no man who has left house or parents or brethren or wife or children for the Kingdom xi PROLOGUE.
Seite xiii
... silence of the far mountains on which the armies of God and the enemy confront one another in a mysterious battle , of which the battle in the world is only a pale reflection . The monastic Church is the Church of the wilderness , the ...
... silence of the far mountains on which the armies of God and the enemy confront one another in a mysterious battle , of which the battle in the world is only a pale reflection . The monastic Church is the Church of the wilderness , the ...
Seite xiv
... 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 he knows that the ...
... 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 he knows that the ...
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... silence and prayer dispose the soul for this mysterious destiny in God . Asceticism itself does not pro- duce divine union as its direct result . It only dis- poses the soul for union . The various practices of monastic asceticism are ...
... silence and prayer dispose the soul for this mysterious destiny in God . Asceticism itself does not pro- duce divine union as its direct result . It only dis- poses the soul for union . The various practices of monastic asceticism are ...
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... silence : but in one thing there can be no change in the monk's fundamental obliga- tion to be " obedient unto death . " This means * Cassian quotes this expression from one of the Desert Fathers , Abbot Pinuphius , speaking to a young ...
... silence : but in one thing there can be no change in the monk's fundamental obliga- tion to be " obedient unto death . " This means * Cassian quotes this expression from one of the Desert Fathers , Abbot Pinuphius , speaking to a young ...
Inhalt
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 |
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