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The Wounded Heart of Thomas Merton

by Robert Waldron

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Paulist Press International,U.S.
  • 13.7 x 20.3 x 1.8 cm

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For readers interested in the life of Thomas Merton

Explores Merton's inner conflicts and spiritual struggles

You will gain insight into Merton's quest for authenticity

This biography reveals the complex spiritual journey of Thomas Merton.

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Robert Waldron's brief biography of Thomas Merton examines and exposes a man who lived a deeply spiritual life, yes, but also a deeply conflicted one as well. By the use of Jungian theory and archetypes, Waldron explores all of the major Merton works (e.g., Seven Storey Mountain, The Sign of Jonas, The Collected Poems, Zen and the Birds of Appetite), but especially all of the many volumes of Merton's private diaries, and discovers a man, a soul struggling to live "la vita nuova" in the monastery while being drawn by various sirens out of it. Edgy, chancy, and at times speculative, Waldron penetrates Merton's sometimes dense poetry and prose to discover or uncover what was wanting in Merton's soul his desire for his own hermitage; his longing for the nurse he fell in love with; his desire perhaps to establish an entirely new monastic foundation. Merton emerges less a saint than a sinner who never stopped trying to become a saint by "becoming who he really was."
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  • Author

    Robert Waldron

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Paulist Press International,U.S.

  • Published

    December 2003

  • Weight

    300g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    13.7 x 20.3 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780809146840

  • ISBN-10

    0809146843

  • Eden Code

    4026051

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