Make Peace before the Sun Goes Down
The Long Encounter of Thomas Merton and His Abbot, James Fox
In the 1950s and '60s, Thomas Merton, a monk of the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in Kentucky, published a string of books that are among the most influential spiritual books of the twentieth century—including the mega-best seller The Seven-Storey Mountain. He was something of a rock star for a cloistered monk, and from his monastic cell he enjoyed a wide and lively correspondence with people from the worlds of religion, literature, and politics. During that period he also explored and wrote extensively on Buddhism, Sufism, art, and social action. The man to whom he owed obedience in the cloistered life was a much more traditional Catholic…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8348-0091-5
- EAN: 9780834800915
- Produktnummer: 21089104
- Verlag: Shambhala
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 703 KB
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Roger Lipsey is a biographer, art historian, editor, and translator. He is the author of An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art; Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton; and most recently Hammarskjöld: A Life, hailed as the definitive Dag Hammarskjöld biography.
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