Arthur Merton. A Story for the Young
Title | Arthur Merton. A Story for the Young PDF eBook |
Author | Mrs. Webb-Peploe (Annie) |
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Pages | 378 |
Release | 1863 |
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Arthur Merton
Title | Arthur Merton PDF eBook |
Author | David Dixon Porter |
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Pages | 352 |
Release | 1889 |
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Oxford University Gazette
Title | Oxford University Gazette PDF eBook |
Author | University of Oxford |
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Pages | 532 |
Release | 1880 |
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The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
Title | The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson PDF eBook |
Author | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount) |
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Pages | 578 |
Release | 1845 |
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The Honours Register of the University of Oxford
Title | The Honours Register of the University of Oxford PDF eBook |
Author | University of Oxford |
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Pages | 660 |
Release | 1883 |
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Thomas Merton's Art of Denial
Title | Thomas Merton's Art of Denial PDF eBook |
Author | David D. Cooper |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 082033216X |
Trappist monk and best-selling author, Thomas Merton battled constantly within himself as he attempted to reconcile two seemingly incompatible roles in life. As a devout Catholic, he took vows of silence and stability, longing for the security and closure of the monastic life. But as a writer he felt compelled to seek friendships in literary circles and success in the secular world. In Thomas Merton's Art of Denial, David D. Cooper traces Merton's attempts to reach an accommodation with himself, to find a way in which "the silence of the monk could live compatibly with the racket of the writer." From the roots of this painful division in the unsettled early years of Merton's life, to the turmoil of his directionless early adult years in which he first attempted to write, he was besieged with self-doubts. Turning to life in a monastery in Kentucky in 1941, Merton believed he would find the solitude and peace lacking in the quotidian world. But, as Merton once wrote, "An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck." Merton felt compelled to choose between life as either a less than perfect priest or a less prolific writer. Discovering in his middle years that the ideal monastic life he had envisioned was an impossibility, Merton turned his energies to abolishing war. It was in this pursuit that he finally succeeded in fusing the two sides of his life, converting his frustrated idealism into a radical humanism placed in the service of world peace. Here is a portrait of a man torn between the influence of the twentieth century and the serenity of the religious ideal, a man who used his own personal crises to guide his youthful ideals to a higher purpose.
Oxford University Calendar
Title | Oxford University Calendar PDF eBook |
Author | University of Oxford |
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Pages | 506 |
Release | 1845 |
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