Status
Available
Call number
Publication
New York, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy [1957]
Description
Thomas Merton wroteThe 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 intensebeauty of Merton's meditation, radiating from beneath its surface calm, makesThe Silent Life a classic of its kind.
LCC
BX2431.M47
Original publication date
1957
Physical description
xiv, 178 p.; 21 cm
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