Following a photograph of Merton from his hermitage days, Inchausti (English, California Polytechnic State U., San Luis Obispo) frames his analysis of this famous dissident monk with Kierkegaard's def
An exploration of Beat spirituality--seen through excerpts from the writings of the seminal writers of Beat Generation themselves.It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking p
This pocket-sized treasury of wisdom from the influential Christian contemplative, political activist, social visionary, and literary figure is abridged from the larger collection Seeds by Robert Inc
When Thomas Merton entered a Trappist monastery in December 1941, he turned his back on secular life—including a very promising literary career. He sent his journals, a novel-in-progess, and copies of
A treasury of wisdom from the influential Christian contemplative, political activist, social visionary, and literary figure. The Essential Thomas Merton offers insights into the key themes of Mer
Thomas Merton is often considered the most prominent Christian contemplative of the twentieth century, but he was also a political activist, social visionary, and literary figure whose writings combi
