The Silent Life

by Thomas Merton

2020-12-31 20:49:07

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 se... Read more
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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Book Details

File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.45 in
Print pages192
PublisherFarrar, Straus And Giroux
Publication date November 29, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780374512811
Thomas Merton OCSO (Jan31, 1915 – Dec 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordaine...

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