The Eremitic Life: Encountering God in Silence and Solitude

Father Cornelius Wencel Er.Cam. was born in Gosty Poland in 1964. He made his final vows as a Camaldolese hermit in 1993 and was ordained priest in 1999. He now serves as prior and novice master at the Hermitage of the Five Martyrs in Bieniszew Poland. Father Cornelius has published four books in Polish and this is the first one to be translated into English. He received a doctorate in theology in 2004 successfully defending his dissertation on "The Trinitarian-Christological Perspective of Theological Anthropology in the Theodramatic of Hans Urs von Balthasar". The author profits from the insights of Balthasar Kierkegaard Merton and various contemporary Polish thinkers. Topics treated in this book include seeking God existential openness discipline simplicity contemplation interreligious dialogue and ecology.