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- Book Title
- Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon : the Camaldoli Correspondence
- Publication Name
- Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon
- Title
- Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon
- Contributor
- Douglas E Christie (Foreword by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1498209378
- EAN
- 9781498209373
- ISBN
- 9781498209373
- Publisher
- Wipf & Stock Publishers
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Religion
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 19/05/2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Topic
- Spirituality, Monasticism, Religious, General
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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How did Thomas Merton become Thomas Merton? Starting out from any one of his earlier major life moments--wealthy orphan boy, big man on campus, fervent Roman Catholic convert, new and obedient monk--we find ourselves asking how by his life's end he had grown from who he was then into a transcultural and transreligious spiritual teacher read by millions. This book takes another such starting point: his attempt in the mid-1950s to move from his abbey of Gethsemani, in Kentucky--a place that had become, in his view, noisy beyond bearing--to an Italian monastery, Camaldoli, which he idealized as a place of monastic peace. The ultimate irony: Camaldoli at that time, bucolic and peaceful outwardly, was inwardly riven by a pre-Vatican II culture war; whereas Gethsemani, which he tried so hard to leave, became, when he was given his hermitage there in 1965, his place to recover Eden. In walking with Merton on this journey, and reading the letters he wrote and received at the time, we find ourselves asking, as he did, with so much energy and honesty, the deep questions that we may well need to answer in our own lives.
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Publisher
Wipf & Stock Publishers
ISBN-10
1498209378
ISBN-13
9781498209373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
236665886
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon : the Camaldoli Correspondence
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Spirituality, Monasticism, Religious, General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Religion
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bx4705.M542g73 2015
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"Grayston offers an excellent example of work that emerges when disciplined scholarship, seasoned experience, and refined pastoral awareness are free to converge and collaborate in the creative mind of a writer. Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon both informs and transforms the reader with a pilgrimage that begins with the unexpected discovery of letters in a Camaldolese monastery and goes deep into the most challenging terrain of Merton's spiritual journey . . . and our own." --David Joseph Belcastro, President of the International Thomas Merton Society "This book presents a thorough, engaging, and enlightening study of Merton's major periods of instability resulting from his desire for greater solitude . . . Through this marvelous piece of scholarship, the reader will gain new and fascinating insights into the life, vocation, and struggles of this great twentieth-century spiritual master." --Paul M. Pearson, Director of the Thomas Merton Center "Donald Grayston's sensitive, inquisitive, and probing examination of the spiritual disorder at the heart of Merton's restiveness is a gallimaufry, a rich mosaic of psychologically penetrative insights, a tantalizing portrait of a modern gyrovague's disquiet, a potpourri of snippets and shards of sapiential quality." --Michael Higgins, Vice President for Mission and Catholic Identity, Sacred Heart University "Scholarly, accessible, relevant. Grayston unpacks the complex tale told in this hitherto unknown correspondence from a critical period in Merton's life and shows us yet again the human fallibility that somehow gives Merton greater not less appeal and relevance to the contemporary reader. As we see Merton struggle with his questions about 'vocation' and the 'will of God,' we find ourselves also being drawn into those same questions in our own lives." --Angus Stuart, Past Chair of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland "Grayston brings together the complexities and paradoxes of Merton's spiritual restlessness, desire for solitude, and late, romantic relationship with his nurse. The credibility of Grayston's work is sustained through an impressive and detailed use of sources, some of them new to Merton readers. Grayston writes with considerable verve and originality and with a readiness to make judgments where they are needed." --Ross Labrie, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia "This work will certainly take its place as one of the most important biographical studies of Thomas Merton and serve as a significant supplement to the standard accounts of Merton's life by Michael Mott and William Shannon." -- Patrick F. O'Connell, as reviewed in American Benedictine Review "This book is quite amazing. It is good and clear and strangely challenging. It tells us about a Merton we would as soon not know about while we also learn to admire him. It is well organized, not preachy, and compassionate. It is well researched and charitable. It is both difficult to read and a pleasure. It makes you wonder. It enlightens, both a scholarly book, well written and compelling. It tells us several stories: Merton's quest; the author's quest; and implies everyone's quest in seeking the will of God. It is about indecision and revision and the need to know, but finally it reminds us that we have a need to accept the fact that we must have faith. It is about vocation and seeking, hoping, and praying and it is a mystery-detective story too, well worth reading." --Victor A. Kramer, as reviewed in The Merton Seasonal
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