Loneliness as a Key to the Merton Story
The article focuses on the life of writer Thomas Merton. Persons who had the privilege of knowing him personally will know that he not only loved other persons and the world around him but was adept in the art of loving others. Readers of the book "The Seven Storey Mountain" can sense read...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2005
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Cistercian studies quarterly
Year: 2005, Volume: 40, Issue: 4, Pages: 395-410 |
| Further subjects: | B
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
B Seven Storey Mountain, The (Book) B Solitude B Loneliness B Social Isolation B God |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | The article focuses on the life of writer Thomas Merton. Persons who had the privilege of knowing him personally will know that he not only loved other persons and the world around him but was adept in the art of loving others. Readers of the book "The Seven Storey Mountain" can sense readily the loneliness of his early years. Loneliness is one of life's most painful experiences. It can create despair and undermine hope so essential to human vitality. Yet, as in Thomas Merton's case, it can press one forward in a quest to find an answer to a restlessness of heart which only rest in God can satisfy. Loneliness fueled in Merton an earnest and intense quest for ever-deeper solitude, in which he could find oneness in God's solitude, that would reunite him with the world he once fled. |
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| ISSN: | 1062-6549 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cistercian studies quarterly
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