Out of Great Silence: a Carthusian interlude.(Spirituality Issue)(An Infinity of Little Hours by Nancy Klein Maguire, Sounds of Silence by Benedict Kossmann and Into Great Silence by Philip Groning)(Book review)

Commonweal | February 29, 2008| | Copyright

Does it qualify as a Jungian convergence that two books about the Carthusians (An Infinity of Little Hours by Nancy Klein Maguire, and Sounds of Silence by Benedict Kossmann) and a highly praised film about a Carthusian monastery (Into Great Silence by Philip Groning) have appeared in the past couple of years? No greater contrast could be offered to our overdecibeled, multitasking world than a monk's life of prayer and silence. Is this recent popular interest simply a passing curiosity or does it reflect hope for contact with an environment that could refresh our fragmented ...

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