Entering the Silence
Entering the Silence

Author: Thomas Merton

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 913

ISBN-13: 0061741728

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The second volume of Thomas Merton's "gusty, passionate journals" (Thomas Moore) chronicles Merton's advancements to priesthood and emergence as a bestselling author with the surprise success of his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Spanning an eleven-year period, Entering the Silence reflects Merton's struggle to balance his vocation to solitude with the budding literary career that would soon established him as one of the most important spiritual writers of our century.

Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841 Vol 2
Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841 Vol 2

Author: Harriet Devine Jump

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1040242995

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The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.

Merton & Buddhism
Merton & Buddhism

Author: Bonnie Bowman Thurston

Publisher: Fons Vitae Thomas Merton

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781887752848

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Divided into three sections, this insightful volume of essays by numerous scholars focuses on Thomas Merton's interest in and transformation through Buddhism. In addition to analysis of how Merton's studies of Buddhism affected his work in the arts, the study also offers information about his Asian journey as well as a complete bibliography of secondary materials. Contributors include Judith Simmer-Brown, Roger J. Corless, Rubin L.F. Habito, John P. Keenan, Roger Lipsey, Paul M. Pearson, and James Wiseman, OSB.

Princes and Princely Culture 1450-1650, Volume 2
Princes and Princely Culture 1450-1650, Volume 2

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9047404858

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Many products of medieval and renaissance culture – literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, forms of devotional piety, and also the social, political and literary self-representation of rulers – found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. This second volume on princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650 – the first was published in 2003 as volume 118/1 in this series – contains twelve essays. These are focused on England under Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and under James I and Charles I. The late fifteenth-century imperial court is treated in a piece on Matthias I Corvinus. The courts of Italy are represented by chapters on those of the Po Valley, the Medici of Florence, the Papal courts of Pius II and Julius II, and of Naples. Spanish court culture is discussed in contributions on Charles V, Philip II, and on Philip IV.

Fan; The Story of a Young Girl's Life, In Two Volumes
Fan; The Story of a Young Girl's Life, In Two Volumes

Author: W. H. Hudson

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 3387310595

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton

Author: Mario Aguilar

Publisher: SPCK

Published: 2011-03-18

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0281066043

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A fresh exploration of Merton's life and thought, focussing on his role as a Christian activist. Written by an author who combines a contemplative life with political action, this is an inspirational book that will encourage readers to work towards a more just world.

Journeys Into Emptiness
Journeys Into Emptiness

Author: Robert Jingen Gunn

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780809139330

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"Journeys into Emptiness traces the lives of three famous religious seekers and their quests for personal transcendence. Dogen, a thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master, experienced emptiness in wordless meditation - the practice of zazen that spread in time from the Eastern world to the West. Thomas Merton was a twentieth-century Catholic monk whose experience of personal homelessness brought him to explore the tension that lies between solitude and community. Carl Jung, raised by a pious father and a psychologically unbalanced mother, was driven to understand the structure of the psyche, including the male and female elements that exist in every human person." "Robert Jingen Guinn provides wise and compassionate portraits of these emblematic figures. Each of them, in his own way, had to experience emptiness, going beyond consciousness to discover his own personal truth, whether that was rooted in Buddha-nature, God or the unconscious. This "going beyond" became a path to encountering their own unique selves and a deeper sense of life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved