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A review by pkgonzales7
Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
As usual, Merton paints some profound truths, specifically about the role of contemplation in the prayer life of the individual and the Church, as rooted in many teachings of St. John of the Cross.
Not necessarily my favorite in terms of feeling as holistic as some of his other works, mostly because the somewhat more academic treatment of what other monks and bishops said about the active v. contemplative life, in the middle of this work, didn’t coalesce as nicely with some of the beautiful but hard insights in the beginning and ending of this.
Still, this squares with so much of what I have read about desert spirituality in other works and is one I will probably return to and ponder.
Not necessarily my favorite in terms of feeling as holistic as some of his other works, mostly because the somewhat more academic treatment of what other monks and bishops said about the active v. contemplative life, in the middle of this work, didn’t coalesce as nicely with some of the beautiful but hard insights in the beginning and ending of this.
Still, this squares with so much of what I have read about desert spirituality in other works and is one I will probably return to and ponder.