Encounters With Silence

Rahner, Karl

ISBN 10: 1890318221 / ISBN 13: 9781890318222

Published by St. Augustines Press, 1999

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Synopsis:

One of the classics of modern spirituality, Encounters with Silence is one of Karl Rahner’s most lucid and powerful books. A book of meditations about man’s relation with God, it is not a work of dry theology, but rather a book of prayerful reflections on love, knowledge, and faith, obedience, everyday routines, life with our friends and neighbors, our work and vocation, and human goodness. The immense success of this moving work is a tribute to its practicality and the ability of the great theologian to speak simply and yet profoundly to ordinary men and women seeking an inspiring guide to the inner life, one that never forsakes the world of reality. The book is cast in the form of a dialogue with God that moves from humble but concerned inquiry to joyful contemplation.

“You will come again because the fact that you have already come must continue to be revealed ever more clearly. It must become progressively manifest to the world that the heart of all things is already transformed, because you have taken them all to your heart. . . . The false appearance of our world, the shabby pretense that it has not been liberated . . . must be more and more thoroughly rooted out and destroyed. . . . And your coming is neither past nor future, but the present, which has only to reach its fulfillment. Now it is still the one single hour of your advent.” (from the book)

Synopsis: 'Encounters with Silence' is one of Karl Rahner's most lucid and powerful books. A book of meditations abut man's relation with God, it speaks simply and yet profoundly to ordinary men and women seeking an inspiring guide to the inner life, yet it never forsakes the world of reality. The book is cast in the form of a dialogue with God that moves from humble but concerned inquiry to joyful contemplation.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Encounters With Silence
Publisher: St. Augustines Press
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 2nd Edition