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On Thomas Merton

On Thomas Merton

Gordon, Mary

Paperback

Religious BiographiesComparative ReligionCatholicism

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1611807670
ISBN13: 9781611807677
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: Jan 7 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings.

If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never have heard of him.

So begins acclaimed author Mary Gordon in this probing, candid exploration of the man who became the face and voice of mid-twentieth-century American Catholicism. Approaching Merton writer to writer, Gordon illuminates his life and work through his letters, journals, autobiography, and fiction. Pope Francis has celebrated Merton as a man of dialogue, and here Gordon shows that the dialogue was as much internal as external--an unending conversation, and at times a heated conflict, between Merton the monk and Merton the writer.

Rich with excerpts from Merton's own writing, On Thomas Merton produces an intimate portrait of a man who lived life in all its imperfectability, reaching toward it in exaltation, pulling back in anguish, but insisting on the primacy of his praise as a man of God.

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