The Ascent to Truth

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Publication Year:
2002

ISBN-13: 9780547537078

<DIV><B>The author of <I>The Seven Storey Mountain</I> explores the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross.</B><BR /><BR /><I>The only thing that can save the world from complete moral collapse is a spiritual revolution.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. The desire for unworldliness, detachment, and union with God is the most fundamental expression of this revolutionary spirit.</I><BR /> &#160;<BR /> In <I>Ascent to Truth</I>, author and Trappist Monk Thomas Merton makes an impassioned case for the importance of contemplation. Drawing on a range of thinkers&mdash;from Carl Jung to Pope Pius XII&mdash;Merton defines the nature of contemplative experience and shows how the Christian mysticism of sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite Saint John of the Cross offers essential answers to our disquieting and troubling times.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;For any who have the desire to look into meditation and contemplation&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. this is the book for which they have waited.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>New York Herald Tribune Book Review</I><BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;For those who may be curious about mysticism, and for those who may be called to a life of contemplation, this is an excellent book.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Catholic World</I></DIV>