Contemplative Prayer (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Contemplative Prayer Thursday, August 6 2009.

• A guide to modern prayer draws on such influences as John of the Cross and Eastern desert monasticism and serves as an argument against drug-induced inner peace. Reissue. NYT.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Contemplative Prayer Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Thomas Merton: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Thich Nhat Hanh: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Contemplative Prayer Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The monk is a Christian who has responded to a special call from God, and has withdrawn from the more active concerns of a worldly life, in order to devote himself completely to repentance, "conversion," metanoia, renunciation and prayer.