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Title: Disputed Questions by Thomas Merton ISBN: 0-15-626105-7 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 26 April, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Deep Insights
Comment: Although this collection of essays covers a wide variety of subjects, from the roots of the Carmelite order to current (1960) political issues, it has an important connecting theme, the nature of the individual's relationship to society. My favorite selections were:
"The Pasternak Affair" is a penetrating analysis of Pasternak's work and his poetic struggle to be human in a harshly dehumanizing communist society. In addition, Merton's commentary touches on how our own "free" society is in a much more insidious way nearly as dehumanizing. Clearly, Merton, who had some correspondence with Pasternak, dearly loved the man and his work.
"The Power and Meaning of Love" is one of the most beautiful explorations of what it means to love and be loved that I have read.
"Philosophy of Solitude" boldly asserts that we are all solitaries; the only question is whether we accept it or run away from it. Society, in a sense, is nothing more than a structure of distractions that enables us to ignore our intrinsic lonliness. However, if we turn and face our solitary nature, we can discover that we are not empty at all, but full of God. Merton explains with magnificent clarity how we should pursue this discovery, and how to avoid the pitfalls that can lead us, with the best of spiritual intentions, astray.
Very hard to go wrong with this book!
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Title: A Way of Desert Spirituality: The Plan of Life of the Hermits of Bethlehem, Chester, New Jersey by Eugene L. Romano ISBN: 0818908211 Publisher: Alba House Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Contemplation in a World of Action (Gethsemani Studies in Psychological and Religious Anthropology) by Thomas Merton, Robert Coles ISBN: 0268008345 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Language of Silence: The Changing Face of Monastic Solitude (Traditions in Christian Spirituality Ser) by Peter-Damian Belisle, Philip Sheldrake ISBN: 1570754861 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Learning to Love : Exploring Solitude and Freedom by Thomas Merton ISBN: 0060654856 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton ISBN: 0385010184 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 1968 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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