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Silent Life

Silent Life

Paperback

Religion General CatholicismGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0374512817
ISBN13: 9780374512811
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Nov 29 1999
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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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