Bibliograph

The seeker and the monk, everyday conversations with Thomas Merton, Sophfronia Scott ; foreword by Barbara Brown Taylor

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The seeker and the monk, everyday conversations with Thomas Merton, Sophfronia Scott ; foreword by Barbara Brown Taylor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The seeker and the monk

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Sophfronia Scott ; foreword by Barbara Brown Taylor

Sub title

everyday conversations with Thomas Merton

Summary

"In The Seeker and the Monk, Sophfronia Scott mines the extensive private journals of Thomas Merton, one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past, for guidance on how to live in fraught times. Race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, love: with intimacy and a refusal to settle for cliché, Scott invites readers into the themes that occupied Merton and that still command our attention today." [cover]

Table Of Contents

This monk who follows me around: getting to know Thomas Merton -- Alexa, where's my stuff?: when what we own owns us -- Your work and God's work: how to put ambition in its place -- I am a bird, waiting: how to find God's presence in nature -- When faith tires: how to revive spirit after an epiphany -- The soul selects its society: how to make spiritual friends -- Human in an inhuman age: how to serve the world -- The Hermione Granger of Gethsemani: how to pray -- Hopeful eyes on a hopeless issue: how to resist racism -- Swiping right in the marketplace: how to love -- In sight of the harbor: meeting death without fear

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