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Thomas Merton: The Monastic Vision (Library of Religious Biography) (Paperback)
by Lawrence Cunningham (Author) "ALMOST EVERYONE WHO SPEAKS OR WRITES OF THE ABbey of Gethsemani, located just south of Bardstown, Kentucky, where Thomas Merton became a monk in 1941,..." (more)

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Paperback: 244 pages
Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co (1 Oct 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0802802222
ISBN-13: 978-0802802224
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 886,609 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Taking up where Merton's own Seven Storey Mountain ends, this penetrating biography by Lawrence Cunningham explores Merton's monastic life and his subsequent growth into a modern-day spiritual master. Though the basic story of Thomas Merton's life may be well known, the details of his spiritual development are less familiar. Cunningham shows that Merton's prolific writings and his continuing influence can only be understood against the background of his contemplative experience as a Trappist monk. "If one does not understand Merton as a monk," writes Cunningham, "one does not understand Merton at all." Merton emerges from this balanced and reliable account as an extraordinary Christian seeker and pioneer whose faith in the power of the contemplative life remains highly relevant today.

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ALMOST EVERYONE WHO SPEAKS OR WRITES OF THE ABbey of Gethsemani, located just south of Bardstown, Kentucky, where Thomas Merton became a monk in 1941, describes the life there as "medieval." Read the first page

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