As the title suggests, the present volume (first published by Herder in 1984) offers a concise account of what is distinctive about Christian meditation vis-à-vis innumerable other schools and teachings. For “ the decisive question is whether God has spoken to the human race—about himself, of course, and likewise about his reason for creating man and the world—or whether the Absolute remains the Silence beyond all the words of the world.” Christian meditation thus remains “entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God’s sight”.