Author: Thomas Merton::Jonathan Montado::Jonathan Montaldo
Publisher: Harpercollins
Edition: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 271.12502
Publication Date: 1996-01
Reading Level: 528
Description: The second volume of Thomas Merton's "gusty, passionate journals" (Thomas Moore) chronicles Merton's advancements to priesthood and emergence as a bestselling author with the surprise success of his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Spanning an eleven-year period, Entering the Silence reflects Merton's struggle to balance his vocation to solitude with the budding literary career that would soon established him as one of the most important spiritual writers of our century.
Description: Here is a provocative collection of daily readings and reflections drawn from the writings of worldly-man-turned-monk, Thomas Merton, designed to flood our dark moods with light, changing the way we see everything.
Description: Thomas Merton on Spirituality - Part 2 of 2 (5 Titles, 5 CDs) In these live audio CD recordings you will hear Thomas Merton's own voice discussing his thoughts on spirituality with visiting novices during his stay at the Abbey of Gethsemani.
SEEKING AND FINDING GOD Merton articulates the paradoxical truth that we seek God because we have found God. He also gives a brief theology of grace and contrasts Catholic and Reformation views on grace. He then gives St. Bernard's view on what is required in loving God.
AWAKENING THE HEART Drawing on Sufi masters and St. Bernard, Merton explains the importance of the limits of knowledge about God. What is important in both traditions is the more direct knowledge of God, the knowledge that comes through love. Merton shares some of the techniques contemplatives have traditionally used to cultivate this more direct knowledge.
FACING THE TRUTH OF LIFE Merton uses Greek tragedy and Sufi philosophy to talk about two sides of the same problem: death. He explains how Greek tragedy meditated on facing disorder in life, then he shows how Sufi philosophy helps us see that unless we face death with rootedness in God, we will never find meaning.
SANCTITY You don't get to heaven by being good. Merton's Catholic belief is that sanctity is the work of the Holy Spirit acting in us. Our life is more complex and diffcult than just being good.
THE DOOR OF PARADISE Merton loves the symbolic theology of the Syrian theologians and St. Ephrem's theology of Paradise delights him. He explains portions of the spiritual life using the symbols of Paradise. He also rejects the pessimism of some of the early 60's thought coming from France.
Description: Charged with training young monks at Gethsemani Abbey, Thomas Merton combined his literary genius and his love of the monastic tradition to produce Monastic Orientation Notes as the bases of his classes. In this volume, he treats the many and varied forms of monastic life which preceded, and helped to form, the Rule of Saint Benedict.
Description: The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of Merton's life - the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s among them. His timeless moral integrity and tireless concern for nonviolent solutions to war are eloquently expressed.
