Survival or prophecy?
Subtitle: the correspondence of Jean Leclercq & Thomas Merton
By: edited with an introduction by Patrick Hart ; foreword by Rembert Weakland ; afterword by Michael Casey.
Contributors: Hart, Patrick.; Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
Series: Monastic wisdom series -- no. 17
Publisher: Cistercian Publications; Liturgical Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780879070175
Subjects: Merton, Thomas, -- 1915-1968 -- Correspondence; Leclercq, Jean, -- 1911-1993 -- Correspondence; Trappists -- United States -- Correspondence; Benedictines -- Luxembourg -- Correspondence; Monastic and religious life
Genres: Correspondence.
Work titles: Correspondence.
Description: "Survival or Prophecy? contains the correspondence exchanged between Dom Jean Leclercq, a French Benedictine monk and scholar from the monastery of Clervaux in Luxembourg and Father Thomas Merton, an American Cistercian monk of Gethsemeni Abbey in Kentucky. Their correspondence over twenty years is a fascinating record of the common yearnings of these two monks. Full of learning, human insight, and self-depreciating humor, these letters capture the excitement of the Catholic Church in the era of the Second Vatican Council - and the perennial appeal of the life of monastic solitude."--Jacket.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Survival or prophecy? : the letters of Thomas Merton and Jean Leclercq.

Includes index.