Biblical Spirituality Press

Category: Catholic Spirituality

  • A Book Review of Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain

    The Seven Storey Mountain. By Thomas Merton. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948, 429 pp., hardcover.   Born in France in 1915, grew up in the U.S., and died in Thailand in 1968, Thomas Merton, is regarded as one of the most celebrated Catholic writers of the twentieth century. He is particularly well-known for…

  • A Book Review of The Rule of Saint Benedict in English

    Without a shadow of doubt, Saint Benedict’s (c. 480-547) Rule influenced considerably the medieval catholic spirituality of the Western world. In particular, it provided the backbone for the subsequent Benedictine spirituality. And even today, although it was written about fifteen centuries ago, The Rule remains an important pattern for living among Benedictine monks and nuns.…