The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
This is quintessential Merton.—The Catholic Review.The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground—I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering... With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient. His travels led him from Bangkok, through India to Ceylon, and back again to Bangkok for his scheduled talk at a conference of Asian monastic orders. There he unequivocally reaffirmed his Christian vocation. His last journal entry was made on December 8, 1968, two days before h…
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Weitere Autoren: Hart, Patrick (Hrsg.) / Laughlin, James (Hrsg.) / Stone, Naomi Burton (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2309-6
- EAN: 9780811223096
- Produktnummer: 34247354
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1975
- Seitenangabe: 446 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 13'933 KB
- Abbildungen: Black-and-white photographs throughout
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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) entered the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, following his conversion to Catholicism and was ordained in 1949. During the 1960s, he was increasingly drawn into a dialogue between Eastern and Western religions and was actively engaged with domestic issues of war and racism.
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