Thomas Merton : Faithful Visionary (People of God)

Higgins, Michael W.

Liturgical Press（2014/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 136 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780814637067
• DDC分類 271.12502

Full Description

People of God is a brand new series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men have known challenges and weaknesses familiar to most of us, but responded to them in ways that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each of them offers a credible and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day.

Thomas Merton was the consummate post-modern holy one: flawed, anti-institutional, a voice for the voiceless. But he was also a classical traditionalist: centered, obedient, in search of stability. He was a religious thinker of remarkable insight, a social commentator of courage and conviction, and a writer of startling virtuosity. Michael W. Higgins recounts the life of this insatiable wanderer. He explores the various layers of influence and evolution in Merton's thought and spirituality. This book tells the remarkable story of a life that remains to be understood from its beginnings and long after its premature ending.

Contents

Contents
Preface   ix
Acknowledgements   xiii
Chapter One
From Prades to Cambridge   1
Chapter Two
The Army or the Trappists?   15
Chapter Three
Fixed but Restless   25
Chapter Four
Abbot Problems   35
Chapter Five
The Making of a Moral Prophet   51
Chapter Six
Seized Love   71
Chapter Seven
Summoned by the East   93 
Notes   107
Bibliography   113
Index   117