Thomas Merton and the inclusive imagination [electronic resource] / Ross Labrie

Author: Labrie, Ross
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2001]
Copyright Date: ©2001
Physical Description: ix, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: NetLibrary, Inc

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Romanticism and mysticism -- Consciousness and being -- Solitude and the self -- Nature and time -- Paradise and the child's vision -- The imagination and art -- Myth and culture -- Individuation, unity, and inclusiveness.

Summary

Thomas Merton, described as the most important American religious writer of the past hundred years, was a Roman Catholic priest, a Trappist monk, a social activist, and a poet. One of the notable characteristics of Merton's writing, both in poetry and in prose, was his seamless intermingling of religious and Romantic elements, an intermingling that, because of his gifts as a writer and because of his enormous influence, has had the effect of making widespread a distinctive form of religious thought and expression. In this book, Ross Labrie reveals the breadth of Merton's intellectual reach by taking an original and systematic look at Merton's thought, which is generally regarded as eclectic and unsystematic. This work, which takes into account material from Merton's journals and from his Columbia University notebooks on Romanticism, not only shows Merton's intellectual growth but provides a look at his expansive interests as well.

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0826262791 (electronic bk.)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.

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