Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton [Hardcover ed.] 0814653901; 9780814653906

While numerous studies have celebrated Thomas Merton's witness as an interfaith pioneer, poet, and peacemaker, ther

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Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton [Hardcover ed.]
0814653901; 9780814653906

In 1969, one year after Thomas Merton's tragic (and suspicious) death, John Howard Griffin was invited to write a b

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Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, comtemplat

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Seldom can one predict that a book will have an effect on history, but this is such a work. Merton's many biographe

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Having embraced a life of solitude in his own hermitage, Thomas Merton finds his faith tested beyond his imagination whe

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Provides an in-depth look at the life of Thomas Day from childhood and education through writing accomplishments and the

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In this fourth volume of correspondence, readers discover "the literary Merton," who had a passion for writing

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From the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid-1930s, the noted editor R

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WINNER of the 2021 Thomas Merton Award awarded by The International Thomas Merton Society What if we truly belong to eac

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In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is "the only min

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Thomas Merton spent two weeks in Alaska in 1968 just prior to his fateful trip to the East. He had no thought of publica

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