Modern Spiritual Masters : Alfred Del - Merton

Modern Spiritual Masters

Alfred Del

By: Merton

Hardcover | 16 January 2004

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Alfred Delp (1907-1945) was a German Jesuit executed by the Nazis as a result of his anti-Hitler activities. During his months in prison he composed a series of meditations on Advent, the Lord's Prayer, the tasks of the future, the meaning of happiness, and other spiritual themes--each charged with the urgency of his own circumstances and addressing the wider struggle between the Gospel and the powers of this world. Written by a man on the edge of eternity, Delp's reflections bear a special power and poignancy. Echoing the witness of the early Christian martyrs, they show the ongoing relevance of the Gospel in an age of idolatrous power and capricious violence. As Thomas Merton writes in his introduction: These are the thoughts of a man who, caught in a well-laid trap of political lies, clung desperately to a truth that was revealed to him in solitude, helplessness, emptiness and desperation . . . The truth was granted him, and we share it in this book, awed by the realization that it was given him not for himself alone, but for us, who need it just as desperately, perhaps more so, than he did.

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