Contemplative Prayer
by Thomas Merton
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Author: Thomas MertonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1971-02-05
ISBN: 0385092199
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Image
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Book Review: 3.4 stars: Helpful to a degree
Summary: 3 Stars
Merton has done better. "Contemplative Prayer" reads like a term paper, done more out of duty than out of love, a somewhat academic treatise in which we are presented with a collage of quotations about prayer -- from impeccably trustworthy sources, Ruysbroeck, Tauler, Dom Augustine Baker, Abbe Monchanin -- but we are not left with the impression that the author of this treatise has recently prayed.Merton's best writing, in this reader's opinion, is to be found in "Thoughts in Solitude," "New Seeds of Contemplation," the letters of "The Road to Joy," a goodly portion of the journals -- although they can become wearisome when Merton is exhibiting the symptoms of grouchiness -- and several of the poems.
We owe a debt to Robert Waldron for his book "Poetry as Prayer: Thomas Merton" (Boston, Pauline Books & Media, 2000), in which a handful of poems generate elegant in-depth meditations that almost rise to the level of theology.
For a straightforward treatise on contemplative prayer that is useful, accessible, and edifying, might we recommend "Be Still and Know: A Study in the Life of Prayer" by the late Anglican archbishop Michael Ramsey (Boston, Cowley Publications, 1993). Merton is mentioned with evident approval in Ramsey's lucid and slender volume. Perhaps, too, the books of Orthodox metropolitan Anthony Bloom ("Beginning to Pray," "Living Prayer") would prove profitable. And finally -- also from Orthodoxy -- there is Bishop Kallistos Ware's audiocassette "Discovering the Inner Kingdom: Prayer of the Heart" (Torrance, Calif., Oakwood Publications, 1997).
Of course, if "Contemplative Prayer" by Thomas Merton helps you, then by all means ... stick with it!
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