The Power of Silence
Subtitle: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: April 15, 2017
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781621641919
Description: In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before.


Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love?  Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart?
Table of contents: title: Introduction; label: I.
title: Silence versus the World's Noise; label: II.
title: God Does Not Speak, but His Voice is Quite Clear; label: III.
title: Silence, the Mystery, and the Sacred; label: IV.
title: God's Silence in the Face of Evil Unleashed; label: V.
title: Like a Voice Crying out in the Desert: The Meeting at the Grande Chartreuse; title: Afterword; title: Bibliography