The Social Thought Of Thomas Merton
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Author | : David W. Givey |
Publisher | : Saint Mary's Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 159982017X |
This new edition traces the evolution of Thomas Merton's social thought, particularly as it evolved toward a way of nonviolence and peacemaking grounded in contemplation and Christian love. It identifies the social context that shaped Merton, including civil rights and racism, the Vietnam War, and a growing nuclear threat. And it explores the religious influences and experiences that shaped Merton, including Catholic social teaching--particularly Pope John XXIII's encyclical letter Pacem in Terris ( Peace on Earth )--the words and actions of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., the practice of contemplation and Zen, and Merton's own life as a Trappist monk.
Author | : David W. Givey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Gregory K. Hillis |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0814684602 |
How Catholic was Thomas Merton? Since his death in 1968, Merton’s Catholic identity has been regularly questioned, both by those who doubt the authenticity of his Catholicism given his commitment to ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and by those who admire Merton as a thinker but see him as an aberration who rebelled against his Catholicism to articulate ideas that went against the church. In this book, Gregory K. Hillis illustrates that Merton’s thought was intertwined with his identity as a Catholic priest and emerged out of a thorough immersion in the church’s liturgical, theological, and spiritual tradition. In addition to providing a substantive introduction to Merton’s life and thought, this book illustrates that Merton was fundamentally shaped by his identity as a Roman Catholic.
Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1429944072 |
Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary life, as well as the necessity for quiet reflection in an age when so little is private. Thomas Merton writes: "When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, the society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate." Thoughts in Solitude stands alongside The Seven Storey Mountain as one of Merton's most uring and popular works. Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, is perhaps the foremost spiritual thinker of the twentiethcentury. His diaries, social commentary, and spiritual writings continue to be widely read after his untimely death in 1968.
Author | : James Thomas Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Church and social problems |
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Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780811212939 |
An ecumenical anthology, Thoughts on the East gathers Merton's essential definitions of the religions that so much interested him - Taoism, Buddhism (in many forms, but especially Zen), Sufism, and Hinduism. Unified by Merton's belief that East and West share "a unity of outlook and purpose, a common spiritual climate", this eclectic selection also offers a fascinating introduction by the late George Woodcock, author of the acclaimed critical study, Thomas Merton: Monk and Poet.
Author | : Scott Sophfronia |
Publisher | : Broadleaf Books |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1506464963 |
What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun? Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today. In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times. As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited, and intimate conversations on race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, and love. She asks: What is the connection between contemplation and action? Is there ever such a thing as a wrong answer to a spiritual question? How do we care about the brutality in the world while not becoming overwhelmed by it? By engaging in this lively discourse, readers will gain a steady sense of how to dwell more deeply within--and even to love--this despairing and radiant world.
Author | : Patrick F. O'Connell |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1626980233 |
This volume provides a broad cross-section of Merton's work as an essayist, collecting pieces that are characteristic examples of his astonishing output and the fantastic breadth of his interests. The essays range from the wisdom of the desert fathers to the novels of Faulkner and Camus, from interreligious dialogue to racial justice.
Author | : James Thomas Baker |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813189152 |
Thomas Merton: Social Critic organizes and critically analyzes the social thought of the Cistercian monk who has become an internationally known symbol of the spiritual element in man. The author evaluated all of Merton's writings, published and unpublished, then discussed his interpretations with Merton personally. The result is a perceptive relation of Merton's social thought to its genesis in his own life experiences and contemplation, a faithful rendering of Merton's thought on the problems of our time. Merton, the author makes clear, called for a spiritual, social, and religious union. It was a poetic and sometimes unimplemented solution to alienation and division, a valid and authentic, if at times limited, response to the contemporary chaos. This study will be greeted by a strong reaction from Mertonians everywhere.
Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780811205702 |
"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.