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9780802802224

Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision

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  • ISBN13:

    9780802802224

  • ISBN10:

    0802802222

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

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Summary

Taking up where Merton's own Seven Storey Mountain ends, this penetrating biography by Lawrence Cunningham explores Merton's monastic life and his subsequent growth into a modern-day spiritual master. Though the basic story of Thomas Merton's life may be well known, the details of his spiritual development are less familiar. Cunningham shows that Merton's prolific writings and his continuing influence can only be understood against the background of his contemplative experience as a Trappist monk. "If one does not understand Merton as a monk," writes Cunningham, "one does not understand Merton at all." Merton emerges from this balanced and reliable account as an extraordinary Christian seeker and pioneer whose faith in the power of the contemplative life remains highly relevant today.

Author Biography

Lawrence S. Cunningham is professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Preface xi
Prologue 1(18)
The Making of a Monk
19(28)
The Conversion of a Monk
47(28)
Towards Mount Olivet
75(28)
Taking Up the Hermit Life
103(26)
Solitude and Love
129(26)
The Final Years: 1967-1968
155(28)
Summing Up a Life
183(28)
Some Bibliographical Notes
211(15)
Index 226

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