Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Finally completed this. For a small book, it sure took me a while. I would read a few chapters here and there throughout the fall.

There are some good quotes and nice thoughts on prayer and contemplation. I've even used a few in my teaching at church this autumn.

But overall I didn't enjoy the book or find much that was inspiring or engaging about it. It is mostly written about the monastic life of contemplation and, frankly, I wasn't interested. Clearly I am a child of the reformation, as the way-of-life expounded by Merton doesn't sound at all like the "summit of the Christian life of prayer."

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