Jonathan Montaldo,Patrick F.O'Connell

Thomas Merton

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This volume gathers together twelve essays that Thomas Merton wrote for various journals between 1947 and 1952, the years that saw the publication of his best-selling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, his ordination to the priesthood, and his initial appointment as spiritual and intellectual guide of the young monks at the Abbey of Gethsemani. The essays, most of which have never been reprinted, focus above all on aspects of the contemplative life but also consider the spiritual dimensions of literature and the social implications of Christian life. Issued to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, this collection brings to fruition at long last Merton’s own original plan of publishing these essays as a group and so makes available a previously little recognized and underutilized resource for understanding and appreciating a crucial transitional phase in his life as both monk and writer.
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235 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Filoshas quoted9 years ago
    In his essay “The Contemplative Life: Its Meaning and Necessity,” Merton enunciates his enduring faith, for which he was criticized by some, that “Contemplation is the fullness of the Christian life. It is the deep and supernatural and perfect experience of God, which we were all created to enjoy in heaven and which those who listen to God, on earth, and make the sacrifices which He
  • Filoshas quoted9 years ago
    In his essay “The Contemplative Life: Its Meaning and Necessity,” Merton enunciates his enduring faith, for which he was criticized by some, that “Contemplation is the fullness of the Christian life.
  • Filoshas quoted9 years ago
    passing “through the center of his own soul [so as to] lose himself in the mystery and secrecy and infinite, transcendent reality of God living and working within him”
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