The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton’s favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit.
The hermits of Screte who turned their backs on a corrupt society remarkably like our own had much in common with the Zen masters of China and Japan, and Father Merton made his selection from them with an eye to the kind of impact produced by the Zen
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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) entered the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, following his conversion to Catholicism and was ordained in 1949. During the 1960s, he was increasingly drawn into a dialogue between Eastern and Western religions and was actively engaged with domestic issues of war and racism.
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Język Angielski ● Format EPUB ● Strony 88 ● ISBN 9780811220132 ● Rozmiar pliku 3.8 MB ● Wydawca New Directions ● Kraj US ● Opublikowany 1970 ● Do pobrania 24 miesięcy ● Waluta EUR ● ID 7469680 ● Ochrona przed kopiowaniem Adobe DRM
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