The Solitary Explorer: Thomas Merton's Transforming Journey - Softcover

Malits, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498204643 ISBN 13: 9781498204644

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2014

Synopsis

The Solitary Explorer responsibly and critically explores Thomas Merton's lifelong spiritual development as reflected in his religious and secular writings and delineates the meaning of his life and work for contemporary readers. It provides an interpretive chronology of Merton's writings and unravels the intertwining threads of self-realization and widening intellectual interests evidenced in the material he produced between his early autobiography and the controversial work of his later years. Elena Malits shows Merton as writer, as monk, as social critic, as seeker of wisdom in the East, as man of prayer, and as one continually on a journey into the unknown. Merton always held that the quest for God is a continuing one: The Solitary Explorer traces the progress of this quest in Merton's life and literary works to reveal a multifaceted spiritual guide who offers an approach to the divine at once reassuringly traditional and refreshingly contemporary.

About this title

About the Author:

Elena Marits, CSC, a widely acknowledged authority on Thomas Merton, chairs the Religious Studies Department of Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1498204643
• ISBN 13: 9781498204644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190