The waters of Siloe

by Thomas Merton

Paper Book, 1949

Status

Available

Call number

BX4102.M47 1949a

Publication

New York, Harcourt, Brace [1949]

Description

An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de Rancé, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.

LCC

BX4102.M47 1949a

Physical description

xxxviii, 377 p.; 22 cm

Barcode

31342000069368

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