The Waters of Siloe
by Merton, Thomas
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- Hardcover
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Danvers, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Garden City Books 1951 Reprint Edition 377pp, 5 3/4 x 8 1/4, light blue cloth, hardcover in dust jacket CONDITION: GOOD, light general wear and fore edge moderately age toned, a nice solid copy, good to very good condition in good dj (chipped at spine ends, chip on front at bottom and rear upper corner, general age toning)
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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- Title
- The Waters of Siloe
- Author
- Merton, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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