Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocationthe Journal of Thomas Merton, Volume 1: 1939-1941: 1939-41 - Run to the Mountain v. 1 (The Journals of Thomas Merton) (Journals of Thomas Merton, 1) - Softcover

Thomas Merton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060654759 ISBN 13: 9780060654757

Publisher: HarperOne, 2016

Synopsis

When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the journals are the last major piece of writing to appear by the 20th century's most important spiritual writer.

The first of seven volumes, Run to the Mountain offers an intimate glimpse at the inner life of a young, pre-monastic Merton. Here readers will witness the insatiably curious graduate student in New York's Greenwich Village give way to the tentative spiritual seeker and brilliant writer. Merton playfully lists everything from his favorite lines of poetry and songs to the things he most loves and hates.

Thomas Merton was an inveterate diarist; his journals offer a complete and candid look at the rich transformations of his adult life. As Brother Patrick Hart, general editor of the series notes, "Perhaps his best writing can be found in the journals, where he was expressing what was deepest in his heart with no thought of censorship. With their publication we will have as complete a picture of Thomas Merton as we can hope to have."

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Review:

"A rich introduction to [Merton's] vivid imagination."-- "Boston Globe""The trick is always to find the spiritual deeply embedded in this world, and to discover our own eternal dimensions in the midst of our foibles, failures, and sometimes neurotic idiosyncrasies. We have no better guide in these things than Merton, and you couldn't ask for a more lively writer."-- Thomas Moore, author of "Care of the Soul""When all the journals are published, it is likely that they will take their place with the famous journals of Henry David Thoreau, G.M. Hopkins, Edmund Wilson, and prhaps be seen as an American version of St. Augustine's 'Confessions.'" --"Catholic News Service"

About the Author:

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, writer and peace activist. His spiritual classics include the bestselling The Seven Storey Mountain , New Seeds of Contemplation and The Sign of Jonas .

Dr Robert E. Daggy is director of the Thomas Merton Studies Centre at Bellarmine College. He lives in Louisville, KY.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0060654759
• ISBN 13: 9780060654757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512