CONTEMPLATION
in
A WORLD of ACTION
“THOMAS” (Fr. Louis) MERTON, O.C.S.O.
 

 


NewYork, Doubleday, 1971: first published 1969



ONE: MONASTIC RENEWAL


 1. Problems and Prospects

 2. Vocation and Modern Thought

 3. The Identity Crisis

 4. Dialogue and Renewal

 5. Renewal and Discipline

 6. The Place of Obedience

 7. Openness and Cloister

 8. Is the World a Problem?

 9. Contemplation in a World of Action

10. The Contemplative and the Atheist

11. Ecumenism and Renewal

12. The Need for a New Education

13. Final Integration—Toward A “Monastic Therapy”


Appendices (to PART ONE)

1. Notes on The Future of Monasticism

2. The Monk Today


TWO: THE CASE for EREMITISM


1. Christian Solitude

2. The Cell

3. Franciscan Eremitism

4. The Spiritual Father in the Desert Tradition

5. The Case for a Renewal of Eremitism in the Monastic State


THREE: CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE


Is the Contemplative Life Finished?


 

 

 

 


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