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In this diary-like memoir, composed of his most poignant and insightful journal entries, The Intimate Merton lays bare the steep ways of Thomas Merton's spiritual path. Culled from the seven volumes of his personal journals, this twenty-nine year chronicle deepens and extends the story Thomas Merton recounted and made famous in The Seven Storey Mountain. A spiritual autobiography of our century's most celebrated monk, here is Merton's account of his life's major challenges, his confrontations with monastic and church hierarchies, his interaction with religious traditions east and west, and his antiwar and civil-rights activities. The Intimate Merton captures the essence of what makes Thomas Merton's life journey so perennially relevant.
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If you like your saints packaged without the messiness of an actual error-filled life, this book is not for you. If, however, you want a glimpse inside the mind and spirit of a splendid writer and thinker who tried live his life as honestly as he could as a journey into God, then this is a grace-filled beauty. Subtitled "His Life from His Journals," these selections--dating from 1939 (before he entered the monastery) to 1968 (within days of his death)--remind us how much of Merton's life unfolded precisely in and through his own writing--how he made himself through his writing. As he says, "it seems to me that writing, far from being an obstacle to spiritual perfection in my own life, has become one of the conditions on which my perfection will depend." Merton contends that writing--honest writing--is his way to move more and more deeply into the truth. In these very honest pages, covering everything from his meeting with the Dalai Lama to his experience of falling in love (25 years after entering the monastery), Truth unfolds itself through the act of writing. These pages are a thread into the center of that labyrinth, which is where he meets his God. Now we're invited along for the ride. --Doug Thorpe
About the Author:
THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, writer and activist for peace and civil rights. Merton’s works have had a profound impact on contemporary religious and philosophical thought. His journals are his last major writings to appear in print.
BROTHER PATRICK HART, a monk of Gethsemani and general editor of the journals was Thomas Merton’s last secretary. He edited Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation, Vol. 1, and The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey, Vol. 7.
JONATHAN MONTALDO is general editor of the “Fons Vitae” Thomas Merton Series. He was the director of the Thomas Merton Center (the official archive of Merton’s legacy at Bellarmine University) from 1998-2001 and has served as president of the International Thomas Merton Society. He edited Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer, Vol. 2, and Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings.
BROTHER PATRICK HART, a monk of Gethsemani and general editor of the journals was Thomas Merton’s last secretary. He edited Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation, Vol. 1, and The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey, Vol. 7.
JONATHAN MONTALDO is general editor of the “Fons Vitae” Thomas Merton Series. He was the director of the Thomas Merton Center (the official archive of Merton’s legacy at Bellarmine University) from 1998-2001 and has served as president of the International Thomas Merton Society. He edited Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer, Vol. 2, and Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings.
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- PublisherSt. Anthony Messenger Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0867166002
- ISBN 13 9780867166002
- BindingAudio CD
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