The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton write by Thomas Merton. This book was released on 1985. The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, contemplation, and freedom.
The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton Edited by Brother Patrick Hart
The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton Edited by Brother Patrick Hart - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton Edited by Brother Patrick Hart write by Thomas Merton. This book was released on . The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton Edited by Brother Patrick Hart available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Raids on the Unspeakable
Raids on the Unspeakable - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Raids on the Unspeakable write by Thomas Merton. This book was released on 1966. Raids on the Unspeakable available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paperbook collection of his prose writings reveals the extent to which Thomas Merton moved from the other-worldly devotion of his earlier work to a direct, deeply engaged, often militant concern with the critical situation of man in the world.
Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Zen and the Birds of Appetite - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zen and the Birds of Appetite write by Thomas Merton. This book was released on 2010-07-27. Zen and the Birds of Appetite available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners. "Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite—one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing,' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey." This gets at the humor, paradox, and joy that one feels in Merton's discoveries of Zen during the last years of his life, a joy very much present in this collection of essays. Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Zen, especially through his dialogue with the great Zen teacher D.T. Suzuki, the book makes an excellent introduction to a comparative study of these two traditions, as well as giving the reader a strong taste of the mature Merton. Never does one feel him losing his own faith in these pages; rather one feels that faith getting deeply clarified and affirmed. Just as the body of "Zen" cannot be found by the scavengers, so too, Merton suggests, with the eternal truth of Christ.
On Eastern Meditation
On Eastern Meditation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Eastern Meditation write by Thomas Merton. This book was released on 2012-06-20. On Eastern Meditation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A great introduction to the religions of the East by a monk from the West. Merton’s biographer, George Woodcock, once wrote that “almost from the beginning of his monastic career, Thomas Merton tentatively began to discover the great Asian religions of Buddhism and Taoism.” Merton, a longtime social justice advocate, first approached Eastern theology as an admirer of Gandhi’s beliefs on non-violence. Through Gandhi, Merton came to know the great Hindu text the Bhagavad Gita and in time came to have dialogues with the Dalai Lama and Taoist leader D. T. Suzuki. Merton then became deeply interested in Chuang Tzu and Zen thought. On Eastern Meditation, edited by Bonnie Thurston (author of Merton and Buddhism), gathers the best of his Eastern theological writings into a gorgeously designed gift book edition.
