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 viii
... souls for God . Let us face the fact that the monastic vocation tends to present itself to the modern world as a problem and as a scandal . In a basically religious culture , like that of India , or of Japan , the monk is more or less ...
... souls for God . Let us face the fact that the monastic vocation tends to present itself to the modern world as a problem and as a scandal . In a basically religious culture , like that of India , or of Japan , the monk is more or less ...
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... soul and with all thy strength . " The monastic life is 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 ...
... soul and with all thy strength . " The monastic life is 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 ...
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... plunge himself in the faith of Christ . Faith is the light which illumines him in mystery . Faith is the power which seizes upon the inner depths of his soul and delivers him up to the action of the divine Spirit , the Spirit X PROLOGUE.
... plunge himself in the faith of Christ . Faith is the light which illumines him in mystery . Faith is the power which seizes upon the inner depths of his soul and delivers him up to the action of the divine Spirit , the Spirit X PROLOGUE.
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... Prophet : " I will espouse thee to me in faith , and thou shalt know that I am the Lord " ( Osee , 2:20 ) . God is said to be " found " by the soul that is united to Him in a bond as intimate as marriage THE SILENT LIFE.
... Prophet : " I will espouse thee to me in faith , and thou shalt know that I am the Lord " ( Osee , 2:20 ) . God is said to be " found " by the soul that is united to Him in a bond as intimate as marriage THE SILENT LIFE.
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... 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 more or less valuable to 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 more or less valuable to the ...
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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