Authors: Thomas Merton
ISBN-13: 9780760738351, ISBN-10: 0760738351
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: Special Value
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was born in France and came to live in the United States at the age of 24. He received several awards recognizing his contribution to religious study and contemplation, including the Pax Medal in 1963, and remained a devoted spiritualist and a tireless advocate for social justice until his death in 1968. The Sign of Jonas was originally published in 1953.
A recapitulation of his earlier work Seeds of Contemplation, this collection of sixteen essays plumbs aspects of human spirituality. Merton addresses those in search of enduring values, fulfillment, and salvation in prose that is, as always, inspiring and compassionate. “A stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to...live the richest, fullest and noblest life” (Chicago Tribune).
Prologue : no man is an island | ||
1 | Love can be kept only by being given away | 1 |
2 | Sentences on hope | 13 |
3 | Conscience, freedom, and prayer | 24 |
4 | Pure intention | 54 |
5 | The word of the cross | 80 |
6 | Asceticism and sacrifice | 100 |
7 | Being and doing | 123 |
8 | Vocation | 138 |
9 | The measure of charity | 173 |
10 | Sincerity | 198 |
11 | Mercy | 218 |
12 | Recollection | 229 |
13 | "My soul remembered God" | 243 |
14 | The wind blows where it pleases | 250 |
15 | The inward solitude | 258 |
16 | Silence | 269 |