Title: Thomas Merton on mysticism /
Authors: Bailey, Raymond, 1938-
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 1975
Subjects: Merton, Thomas,; Mysticism History
Contents: Preface -- I. INTRODUCTION. Mysticism -- A historical approach -- II. BIRTH TO BIRTH: THE FIRST TWENTY-SIX YEARS. Early life -- The road to conversion -- A prodigious child of faith -- Blake, mystical poet -- Merton, poet-mystic -- The school of the world -- III. THE DESERT. The monastic vocation -- Catharsis -- The search of self -- Understanding God -- Sacrament and liturgy -- A third of the journey -- IV. WORLD INTO SILENCE. The ascent to truth -- The via negationis -- Faith and reason -- Infused contemplation -- The city of God and the city of man -- Sanctification of the ordinary -- A Christian personalism -- Interior solitude -- Illumination -- V. THE DESERT OF THE HEART. Merton's view of the world from the desert: the city of man ; racism and a Christian conscience ; the Christian and nonviolence -- Personalism, the Christian humanism of Thomas Merton -- "The inner experience": the human dilemma ; called to contemplation ; Christology ; West meets East ; speaking the unspeakable -- The turn in the road -- VI. THE UNFINISHED JOURNEY. Freedom, love, union -- The witness of his life -- Index.