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Survival or prophecy? : the letters of Thomas Merton and Jean Leclercq

Title: Survival or prophecy? : the letters of Thomas Merton and Jean Leclercq / edited by Patrick Hart ; foreword by Rembert G. Weakland.
Author: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
Publication: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

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xxvi, 196 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk who wrote The Seven Storey Mountain, spent his literary career in a cloistered monastery in Kentucky. His great counterpart, the French Benedictine monk Jean Leclercq, traveled relentlessly to and from monasteries world-wide, trying to bring about a long-needed reform and renewal of Catholic religious life.".
"Their correspondence over twenty years is a record of the common yearnings of two holy men. "What is a monk?" is the question at the center of their exchange, and in these letters they answer it with great aplomb, touching on the role of ancient texts and modern conveniences; the advantages of hermit life and community life; the fierce Catholicism of the monastic past and the new openness to the approaches of other traditions; the monastery's impulse toward survival and the monk's calling to prophecy.
Full of learning, human insight, and self-deprecating wit, these letters capture the excitement of the Catholic Church in the era of the Second Vatican Council - and the perennial appeal of the life of monastic solitude."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

0374272069 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002019785

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Columbia University Libraries