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Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton

Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton

Paperback

Religion General CatholicismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0814684173
ISBN13: 9780814684177
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: Oct 30 2015
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

While numerous studies have celebrated Thomas Merton's witness as an interfaith pioneer, poet, and peacemaker, there have been few systematic treatments of his Christology as such, and no sustained exploration to date of his relationship to the Russian Sophia tradition. This book looks to Thomas Merton as a classic theologian of the Christian tradition from East to West, and offers an interpretation of his mature Christology, with special attention to his remarkable prose poem of 1962, Hagia Sophia. Bringing Merton's mystical-prophetic Vision fully into dialogue with contemporary Christology, Russian sophiology, and Zen, as well as figures such as John Henry Newman and Abraham Joshua Heschel, the author carefully but boldly builds the case that Sophia, the same theological eros that animated Merton's religious imagination in a period of tremendous fragmentation and violence, might infuse new vitality into our own.

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