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Cargando... Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Mertonpor Jim Forest, Jim FOrest (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. revised edition pictorial Not a comprehensive life, compared to the 1980 biography by Monica Furlong, but a portrait which perhaps has value especially for those interested in Merton as a Catholic peace activist and in his encounter with Eastern religion. The early years are dealt with sketchily, and his passage into the Trappist monastic life covered largely by uncritical reference to his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Forest is less interested than Furlong in Merton's relationship with the Church Fathers and the tradition of Christian contemplative prayer and mysticism. As for his struggles with the asceticism of Trappist life, Forest is markedly more sympathetic than Furlong to Merton's long-time superior, Abbot James, whose authority was sometimes so severe as to appear vindictive, and he is candid about the extent to which Merton strained the boundaries of monastic propriety in his last years. (He also has the advantage of access to material concerning Merton's late and deeply emotional affair with a nurse, Margie, much of which was, I think, still under an embargo when Furlong was writing. Shades of Abelard and Heloise...?) He quotes extensively from Merton's published writings, particularly sections on war and peace from My Argument with the Gestapo and from a version of his essay "The Root of War is Fear" written for The Catholic Worker. The final section, covering Merton's last Asian journey, contains several valuable nuggets, though I am not sure how much is simply lifted or paraphrased from Merton's own posthumously published Asian Journal (1973). Overall, I am glad to have read this and gained some insights into Merton, especially the depth of his passion concerning peace and the pain of responding in faith and trust to the vast social and ecclesiastical changes of the times; but I feel that I got more of a sense of the whole man from Furlong's biography. MB 26-ix-2012 sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Jim Forest is a founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship and former General Secretary of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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