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A Search For Wisdom And Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self

A Search For Wisdom And Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self

Anne E. Carr

Hardcover

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0268017271
ISBN13: 9780268017279
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Feb 28 1988
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Though not a systematic theologian, Thomas Merton spent a lifetime writing in an immensely appealing way about the monastic tradition and mystical theology. One of the fundamental questions he examined was that of the self; for Merton the recovery of the true self is the liberation of the image of God in us. This study explores that process in the context of a few of Merton's works, showing his own development from pious hostility to the world to a more humbling acceptance of humanity. The first full-length appraisal of Merton as theologian, this is well written but contains a few too many abstract phrasessomething Merton in his best work eschewed.

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