A search for wisdom and spirit: Thomas Merton's theology of the self - Softcover

Carr, Anne E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268017271 ISBN 13: 9780268017279

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988

Synopsis

Hardcover with dust jacket. Pencil underlining and markings throughout. Dust jacket is edge chipped and torn. Slightly edge worn boards.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Though not a systematic theologian, Thomas Merton spent a lifetime writing in an immensely appealing way about the monastic tradition and mystical theology. One of the fundamental questions he examined was that of the self; for Merton the recovery of the true self is the "liberation of the image of God" in us. This study explores that process in the context of a few of Merton's works, showing his own development from "pious hostility" to the world to a more humbling acceptance of humanity. The first full-length appraisal of Merton as theologian, this is well written but contains a few too many abstract phrasessomething Merton in his best work eschewed.Carol J. Lichtenberg, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0268017271
• ISBN 13: 9780268017279
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 171