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...WATERS OF SILOE (377 PP.) -Thomas Merton-Harcourt, Brace...
...Waters of Siloe ("waters of Siloe* that flow in silence" - Isaiah 8 : 6) is Thomas Merton's history of the Trappists since the founding of their order in the 12th Century. For an authorized account, the book has moments of uncommon candor. According to Merton, the history of many 17th Century Trappist monasteries "was nothing but a series of petty and sordid intrigues." Forgotten was the strict, humble, ascetic life once outlined by St. Benedict. "The monks . . . had all the comforts of the upper class, with servants and feather beds in their own private apartments." By the 18th Century...
...Author Merton (now Father Louis of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky) such a life seems the surest way to bring a man close to God. What he finds lacking in it is enough time for contemplation. As he complained in The Seven Storey Mountain, "The life is too active . . . too much...
...Thomas Merton's two previous books (Seven Storey and Seeds of Contemplation) have reached bestseller lists. Seven Storey, with its drama of Merton's inner conflict, conversion and renunciation, has sold more than 270,000 copies and is still selling. It is not likely that Waters of Siloe will hit any such figure, but Merton has put together a brief, lively history of an order that U.S. readers seem curious to hear about...
Bolman, William Merton '51, Chadwick, William John '51, Decker, John Barry '51, Marston, Byrne Richard '51, Roosevelt, Julian Kean '50, Wells, John Shippen...