Contemplation in a world of action /
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| Author / Creator: | Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1971. |
| Description: | xxii, 384 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1884669 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Monastic Renewal. Problems and prospects
- Vocation and modern thought
- The identity crisis
- Dialogue and renewal
- Renewal and discipline
- The place of obedience
- Openness and cloister
- Is the world a problem?
- Contemplation in a world of action
- The contemplative and the atheist
- Ecumenism and renewal
- The need for a new education
- Final integration: toward a "monastic therapy"
- Appendices: Notes on the future of monasticism; The monk today
- 2. The Case for eremitism. Christian solitude
- The cell
- Franciscan eremitism
- The spiritual father in the desert tradition
- The case for a renewal of eremitism in the monastic state
- 3. Contemplative Life. Is the contemplative life finished?