Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Image
ISBN: 0307589528
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
In this series of notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections, Thomas Merton examines some of the most urgent questions of our age. With his characteristic forcefulness and candor, he brings the reader face-to-face with such provocative and controversial issues as the “death of God,” politics, modern life and values, and racial strife–issues that are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander is Merton at his best–detached but not unpassionate, humorous yet sensitive, at all times alive and searching, with a gift for language which has made him one of the most widely read and influential spiritual writers of our time.

The Seeker and the Monk

The Seeker and the Monk PDF Author: Scott Sophfronia
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
ISBN: 1506464963
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun? Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today. In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times. As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited, and intimate conversations on race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, and love. She asks: What is the connection between contemplation and action? Is there ever such a thing as a wrong answer to a spiritual question? How do we care about the brutality in the world while not becoming overwhelmed by it? By engaging in this lively discourse, readers will gain a steady sense of how to dwell more deeply within--and even to love--this despairing and radiant world.

Raids on the Unspeakable

Raids on the Unspeakable PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201018
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
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.

Seeds of Destruction

Seeds of Destruction PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429945079
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the foremost spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century. Though he lived a mostly solitary existence as a Trappist monk, he had a dynamic impact on world affairs through his writing. An outspoken proponent of the antiwar and civil rights movements, he was both hailed as a prophet and castigated for his social criticism. He was also unique among religious leaders in his embrace of Eastern mysticism, positing it as complementary to the Western sacred tradition. Merton is the author of over forty books of poetry, essays, and religious writing, including Mystics and Zen Masters, and The Seven Story Mountain, for which he is best known. His work continues to be widely read to this day.

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander Revisited

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander Revisited PDF Author: Paul G. Carr
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781793113030
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Thomas Merton first published "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander" in 1968. Later that year on December 10, 1968, Thomas Merton died in a tragic accidental electrocution.His words live on 50 years later, and along with his other writings over the years have provided his readers with much thought provoking commentary on spiritual matters and religious concerns.In the original Preface to his book Merton sets the reader's expectation, pointing out that his writing is not meant to be a Spiritual Journal or a teaching guide. It is merely a composition of his observations over the years on matters of contemporary concerns. Merton was highly regarded by Scholars of his day and his untimely death left a terrible void in a world struggling to deal with issues that were not of concern to prior generations. War and technology, and their impact on the human condition were among his greatest concerns. We struggle with these issues yet today. In fact both war and technology complicate each other today and present us with even greater challenges than in Merton's time.Merton accomplished much to advance the discussion of moral and decent solutions to real human problems. And he did so against the backdrop of pressure from his Superiors in the Religious Community. Merton was a Trappist Monk and had taken a vow of silence when he professed his vows. Those of us who have not taken such a vow are free to speak. Indeed we have an obligation to do so, for without any effort on the part of the good and decent people of our society, each generation risks the loss of its moral compass, and the world population sinks into chaos and anarchy.What is written here, and what the reader will hopefully take away, is simply a demonstration of how to align the wisdom of the ages, presented to us in the form of many authoritative sources, with the challenges of the world today. Nothing more, nothing less, it is just a guide: hopefully a guide that draws on wisdom of the past and presents future generations with a moral guide to problem solving in times to come.

Faith and Violence

Faith and Violence PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268161348
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
In Faith and Violence, Thomas Merton offers concrete and pungent social criticisms grounded in prophetic faith about such issues as Vietnam, racism, violence, and war.

When the Trees Say Nothing

When the Trees Say Nothing PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
ISBN: 1933495510
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
First published in 2003 and now available in paperback to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Thomas Merton's birth, When the Trees Say Nothing has sold more than 60,000 copies and continually inspires readers with its unique collection of Merton's luminous writings on nature, arranged for reflection and meditation. Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk, author, poet, social commentator, and perhaps the most influential and widely published spiritual writer of the twentieth century. In When the Trees Say Nothing, editor Kathleen Deignan sheds new light on Merton by focusing on a neglected theme of his writing: the natural world as a manifestation of the divine. Drawing from Merton's voluminous writing on nature, Deignan has thematically assembled a collection of lucid, poetic reflections. Chapters on the four elements, the seasons, the Earth and its creatures, and the sun, moon, and stars provide brief passages from his diverse works that reveal the presence of God in creation.
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