Contemplative Prayer (Image Classic) - Softcover

Thomas Merton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385092199 ISBN 13: 9780385092197

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 2000

Synopsis

In this classic text, Thomas Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer. He brings together a wealth of meditative and mystical influences-from John of the Cross to Eastern desert monasticism-to create a spiritual path for today. Most important, he shows how the peace contacted through meditation should not be sought in order to evade the problems of contemporary life, but can instead be directed back out into the world to affect positive change.
Contemplative Prayer is one of the most well-known works of spirituality of the last one hundred years, and it is a must-read for all seeking to live a life of purpose in today's world.
In a moving and profound introduction, Thich Nhat Hanh offers his personal recollections of Merton and compares the contemplative traditions of East and West.

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Review:

"[Readers] will find "Contemplative Prayer" valuable. Merton shows that all living theology needs to be rooted in exercises where men somehow happily establish contact with God."" --New York Times Book Review
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[Readers] will find "Contemplative Prayer" valuable. Merton shows that all living theology needs to be rooted in exercises where men somehow happily establish contact with God. " --New York Times Book Review
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"[Readers] will find Contemplative Prayer valuable. Merton shows that all living theology needs to be rooted in exercises where men somehow happily establish contact with God." --New York Times Book Review


-[Readers] will find Contemplative Prayer valuable. Merton shows that all living theology needs to be rooted in exercises where men somehow happily establish contact with God.- --New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968), Trappist monk, author, and peace activist, came to international prominence at a young age with his classic autobiography, The Seven Story Mountain. Over the rest of his life he wrote prolifically on a vast range of topics, including prayer, interior growth, social responsibility, violence, and war. Toward the end of his life he played a significant role in introducing Eastern religions to the West. He is today regarded as a spiritual master, a brilliant religious writer, and a man who embodied the quest for God and human solidarity in the modern world.
THICH NHAT HANH is an internationally respected Zen poet and teacher. He is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Zen Keys and Living Buddha Living Christ.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385092199
• ISBN 13: 9780385092197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128