Thomas Merton : Twentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Living

Dekar, Paul R.

Lutterworth Press（2012/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780718892593
• DDC分類 230

Full Description

Thomas Merton was arguably the twentieth century's most widely published and widely read spiritual writer. This book explores Merton's prophetic writings and experience as they offer guidance for those seeking to experience God, to simplify their lives, to live more humanly, and to shape Christian community in the face of alienation, consumerism, noise, and technology. The book includes parts of three previously unpublished conference contributions by Merton on technology.
Exploring Merton's thoughts on monastic renewal, prayer, radical simplicity, ecology, technology, war, peace and interfaith dialogue, Dekar reminds us why Merton was so influential and why he continues to be so.

Contents

Foreword by Paul M. Pearson
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Stirrings of a New Monasticism
2. Introducing Thomas Merton
3. Thomas Merton on Monastic Renewal
4. Thomas Merton on Simplification of Life
5. Thomas Merton, Guide to the Right Use of Technology
6. Thomas Merton on Care of Earth
7. The Root of War Is Fear
8. Twentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Communities
9. Building Communities of Love
Appendix 1: Conference on The Christian in a Technological World by Thomas Merton
Appendix 2: Conference on Marxism and Technology by Thomas Merton
Bibliography