Question: What profession do Thomas Merton and Michael Moorcock have in common?

full_context: Document 1: Michael Moorcock: Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s.
Document 2: The Eternal Champion (novel): The Eternal Champion is a fantasy novel by Michael Moorcock. First published in 1970, it is based on stories Moorcock published in "Avillion" and "Science Fantasy". It is the first in a trilogy of books about the Eternal Champion in his incarnation as Erekosë. The sequels are "Phoenix in Obsidian" (1970), also published as "The Silver Warriors", and "The Dragon in the Sword" (1987).
Document 3: Elric of Melniboné: Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by Michael Moorcock and the protagonist of a series of sword and sorcery stories taking place on an alternate Earth. The proper name and title of the character is Elric VIII, 428th Emperor of Melniboné. Later stories by Moorcock marked Elric as a facet of the Eternal Champion.
Document 4: Erekosë: Erekosë is a character in author Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel "The Eternal Champion". He is an incarnation of Moorcock's character the Eternal Champion, and is unique among those incarnations in that he can remember his previous lives, something that frequently causes him great distress.
Document 5: M. John Harrison: Michael John Harrison (born 26 July 1945), known for publication purposes primarily as M. John Harrison, is an English author and literary critic. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories (1971–1984), "Climbers" (1989), and the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, which consists of "Light" (2002), "Nova Swing" (2006) and "Empty Space" (2012). He is widely considered one of the major stylists of modern fantasy and science fiction, and a "genre contrarian". The "Times Literary Supplement" described him as 'a singular stylist' and the "Literary Review" called him 'a witty and truly imaginative writer'. Robert Macfarlane has said: "Harrison is best known as one of the restless fathers of modern SF, but to my mind he is among the most brilliant novelists writing today, with regard to whom the question of genre is an irrelevance."
Document 6: Melniboné: Melniboné ( ), also known as the Dragon Isle, is an imaginary country, an island featured in the writings of Michael Moorcock. It is the homeland of Elric, one of the incarnations of the Eternal Champion.
Document 7: Claude AnShin Thomas: Claude Anshin Thomas (born 1947) is an American Zen Buddhist monk and Vietnam War veteran. He is an international speaker, teacher and writer, and an advocate of non-violence. Thomas was brought to Buddhism by Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, and was ordained in 1995 by Tetsugen Bernard Glassman of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Thomas teaches Buddhist meditation practice and dharma to the public through social projects, talks, and retreats. Since 1994, Thomas has walked 19000 mi on peace pilgrimages throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. While walking, Thomas carries no money, and begs for food and shelter in the mendicant monk tradition. He is the author of "At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace" (2004) and founder of the Zaltho Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence.
Document 8: List of works about Thomas Merton: The following is a list of works about Thomas Merton, publications about Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk from Abbey of Gethsemani. The bibliography is organized into categories. A separate list of works by Thomas Merton is also available.
Document 9: Thomas Merton: Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Catholic writer, theologian and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis.
Document 10: Thomas Merton Award: The Thomas Merton Award has been awarded since 1972 by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in Pittsburgh, United States. It is named after Thomas Merton and is given annually to "national and international individuals struggling for justice."
Document 11: Thomas Merton Center (Louisville): The Thomas Merton Center is the home of the largest collection of the works of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani. It is located on the second floor of the W.L. Lyons Brown Library at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
Document 12: Phoenix in Obsidian: Phoenix in Obsidian (alternate title: "The Silver Warriors") is a science fantasy novel by Michael Moorcock. First published in 1970, it is the second book in a series that follows the adventures of the Eternal Champion as he is flung from one existence to another. The first book in the series, "The Eternal Champion", told the story of John Daker, an average 20th-century man who suddenly found himself incarnated as Erekosë, a legendary hero of Earth in the distant past (or distant future). He had been called to lead humanity against its Eldren foes, but ended up taking the Eldren's side. "Phoenix in Obsidian" continues the story, which is concluded in "The Dragon in the Sword". The trilogy is part of a larger cycle about the Eternal Champion as defender of the Multiverse.
Document 13: Michael Moorcock's Multiverse: Michael Moorcock's Multiverse is an American twelve-issue comic book limited series published in 1997 as a part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix. It was later collected as a single edition graphic novel. Written by Michael Moorcock, each monthly issue contained a chapter from three separate storylines featuring distinct groups of characters lifted from Moorcock's sprawling Eternal Champion novels.
Document 14: R. S. Thomas: Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman, in his 1955 introduction to "Song at the Year's Turning", the first collection of Thomas's poetry to be produced by a major publisher, predicted that Thomas would be remembered long after he himself was forgotten. M. Wynn Thomas said: "He was the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of Wales because he was such a troubler of the Welsh conscience. He was one of the major English language and European poets of the 20th century."
Document 15: International Thomas Merton Society: The International Thomas Merton Society, founded in 1987, is a learned society which studies the works of American Catholic writer and mystic Thomas Merton. It sponsors conferences and co-publishes a journal, "The Merton Seasonal". The society and the Thomas Merton Center are located at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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