The Waters of Siloe
by Merton, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good Minus DJ; dj has pieces missing from top and bottom of spine; small amt. of edge chipping; all else-clean, tig
- Seller
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Golconda, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Companion volume to the author's autobiography "The Seven Storey Mountain." It is a complete picture of the monk's daily life.
Synopsis
An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de Rancé, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rosebud Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1.18874
- Title
- The Waters of Siloe
- Author
- Merton, Thomas
- Illustrator
- Trappist Life
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good Minus DJ; dj has pieces missing from top and bottom of spine; small amt. of edge chipping; all else-clean, tig
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- religion; culture; Trappist Monks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy & Religions;
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