By Jonathan Montaldo,Harry L. Hinkle,Patrick Hart
ISBN-10: 0813123488
ISBN-13: 9780813123486
Introduction by way of Jonathan MontaldoForeword by way of Brother Patrick Hart, OCSO
For twenty-seven years, well known and liked monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) belonged to Our woman of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery tested in 1848 amid the hills and valleys close to Bardstown, Kentucky. In Thomas Merton's Gethsemani, dramatic black-and-white images via Harry L. Hinkle and crafty textual content by means of Merton student Monica Weis converge in a special event for fans of Merton.
Hinkle used to be allowed exceptional entry to many components contained in the monastery and on its grounds which are quite often limited. His images invite the reader to event some of the knobs, lakes, woods, and hermitages Merton sought out for occasions of solitude and contemplation and for studying and writing. those specified pictures, every one observed by way of a passage from Merton's writings, evoke own mirrored image and a deeper realizing of the way and why Merton got here to acknowledge himself as part of his Kentucky panorama.
Woven through the ebook, Weis's textual content explores Merton's fascination with nature not just at Gethsemani, yet in the course of his early youth, all through his religious conversion to Roman Catholicism, and whereas a member of the Trappist group. She examines how Merton's lifelong interplay with nature subtly printed and proficient his profound non secular reports and his writing approximately contemplation. Thomas Merton's Gethsemani replicates Merton's course on his solitary hikes within the woods and conveys the sweetness of the landscapes that encouraged him.
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