Entering the Silence
Subtitle: Becoming a Monk and a Writer (The Journals of Thomas Merton, V. 2)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: February 14, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780060654771
Subjects: Biography: general; Christian communities & monasticism; Personal Christian testimony & popular inspirational works; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Religion; Diaries; Biography / Autobiography; United States; Trappists; Religious; Spirituality - General; Religion / Spirituality; 1915-1968; Biography; Merton, Thomas,; Monks
First sentence: Like a high-rise building being suddenly removed, exposed the multitude of submerged pilings shoring up its weight, the publishing of Thomas Merton's extant, private journals will finally reveal the hidden foundations that undergird the poetry and prose of one of the most significant Ameri Roman Catholics of the twentieth century.