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Survival or prophecy? : the letters of Thomas Merton and Jean Leclercq ; edited by Patrick Hart ; foreword by Rembert G. Weakland.
- 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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- Description
- xxvi, 196 pages : illustrations; 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."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968 > Correspondence
- Leclercq, Jean, 1911-1993 > Correspondence
- Leclercq, Jean, 1911-1993
- Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
- Trappists > United States > Correspondence
- Benedictines > Luxembourg > Correspondence
- Benedictines
- Trappists
- Monastic and religious life
- Monastic and religious life
- Luxembourg
- United States
- Genre/Form
- personal correspondence.
- Personal correspondence
- Personal correspondence.
- Correspondance privée.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland -- Introduction / Brother Patrick Hart -- Chronology: Jean Leclercq -- Chronology: Thomas Merton.
- ISBN
- 0374272069
- 9780374272067
- LCCN
- 2002019785
- OCLC
- ocm48943144
- 48943144
- SCSB-1259591
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library