Thomas Merton and the inclusive imagination

The Resource Thomas Merton and the inclusive imagination

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Thomas Merton and the inclusive imagination

Statement of responsibility

Ross Labrie

Language

eng

Summary

Thomas Merton, described as the most important American religious writer of the past hundred years, was a Roman Catholic priest, a Trappist monk, a social activist, and a poet. One of the notable characteristics of Merton's writing, both in poetry and in prose, was his seamless intermingling of religious and Romantic elements, an intermingling that, because of his gifts as a writer and because of his enormous influence, has had the effect of making widespread a distinctive form of religious thought and expression. In this book, Ross Labrie reveals the breadth of Merton's intellectual reach by taking an original and systematic look at Merton's thought, which is generally regarded as eclectic and unsystematic. This work, which takes into account material from Merton's journals and from his Columbia University notebooks on Romanticism, not only shows Merton's intellectual growth but provides a look at his expansive interests as well

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digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

818/.5409

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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index present

LC call number

PS3525.E7174

LC item number

Z766 2001eb

Literary form

non fiction

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dictionaries
bibliography

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