Waters Of Siloe

Thomas Merton; Merton
Houghton Mifflin
9780156949545
0-15-694954-7

An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abb de Ranc, which began the second flowering that continues.

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today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.