The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton
8 best books like The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Michael Mott): The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself, Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul, The Seven Storey Mountain, The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery, Revelations of Divine Love, Contemplative Prayer, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, Christ and Culture
The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
| Author | Teresa of Ávila |
| ISBN | 0140440739 |
Born in the Castilian town of Ávila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her spiritual enlightenment was intensified...
| Author | Cathleen Medwick |
| ISBN | 0385501293 |
A refreshingly modern reconsideration of Saint Teresa (1515-1582), one of the greatest mystics and reformers to emerge within the sixteenth-century Catholic Church, whose writings are a keystone of modern mystical thought.
From the very beginning of her life in a convent, following the...
The Seven Storey Mountain
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0156010860 |
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521433 |
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York. His reflections on daily life with the Trappists are funny, wise, and often profound--resembling Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, but a bit less...
Revelations of Divine Love
| Author | Julian of Norwich |
| ISBN | 0140446737 |
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a classic of Medieval religious literature
After fervently praying for a greater understanding...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0232526044 |
Thomas Merton's classic study of monastic prayer and contemplation brings a tradition of spirituality alive for the present day. But, as A. M. Allchin points out in his Introduction to this new edition, Contemplative Prayer also shows us the present day in a new perspective, because we see it in the...
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0802808689 |
"Lewis struck me as the most thoroughly converted man I ever met," observes Walter Hooper in the preface to this collection of essays by C. S. Lewis. "His whole vision of life was such that the natural and the supernatural seemed inseparably combined."It is precisely this pervasive Christianity which...
| Author | H. Richard Niebuhr |
| ISBN | 0061300039 |
This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist...
