The Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations: A Letter on the Contemplative Life

Name: The Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations: A Letter on the Contemplative Life
Price: 20.99 USD
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ISBN: 9780879077488

Translated By: Edmund Colledge

By: Guigo II

Product Information

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Title: The Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations: A Letter on the Contemplative Life
By: Guigo II
Translated By: Edmund Colledge
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 131
Vendor: Cistercian Publications Inc
Publication Date: 1981

Dimensions: 8.30 X 5.40 X 0.40 (inches)
Weight: 7 ounces
ISBN: 0879077484
ISBN-13: 9780879077488
Series: Cistercian Studies
Stock No: WW077488

Publisher's Description

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'My thoughts on the spiritual exercises proper to cloistered monks'; the ninth prior of La Grande Chartreuse ( '1180) articulates the monastic contemplative tradition in distinctively western terms.

'...reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation. These make a ladder for monks by which they are lifted up from earth to heaven. It has few rungs, yet its length is immense and wonderful, for its lower end rests upon the earth, but its top pierces the clouds and seeks heavenly secrets.'

Author Bio

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Jerome T. Walsh, PhD, is a professor of theology and religious studies at the University of Botswana. He is the author of 1 Kings in the Berit Olam (The Everlasting Covenant) Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry series for which he is also an associate editor.