Research Catalog

Title

Living with wisdom : a life of Thomas Merton / Jim Forest.

Author

Forest, Jim (James H.)

Publication

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2008.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 262 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This pictorial biography of Thomas Merton - revised now for the fortieth anniversary of his death - tells the story of the extraordinary Trappist monk whose writings, including his classic autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, have exerted a profound influence on millions. Beginning with Merton's early life and conversion, his entry into the Abbey of Gethsemani, and his fame as an author, Forest explores his increasing search for solitude, his emergence as a prophetic voice of peace and social justice, and the dialogue with other religions that continued until his sudden death in 1968." --Book Jacket.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Monks > United States > Biography
• Trappists United States > Biography
• Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pax intrantibus -- Childhood -- England -- The Christ of the icons -- Cambridge -- New York City -- Gilson, Huxley, Blake, and Maritain -- Conversion -- Brother John -- Saint Bonaventure's -- The court of the Queen of Heaven -- Brother Louis -- Thomas Merton versus Brother Louis -- Father Louis -- Abbey Forester -- Containing the divided worlds -- Waking from a dream -- A hermitage on Mount Olivet -- Hagia sophia -- Silencing -- Pastor to peacemakers -- Monk in the rain -- Father Louis, hermit -- A proverb named Margie -- A member of the family -- Asia on my mind -- Everything is compassion -- Jonas overshadowed.

ISBN

• 9781570757549
• 1570757542

LCCN

^^2008012650

OCLC

• 219567637
• SCSB-12846981

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library