The Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton

ISBN 10: 0151813531 / ISBN 13: 9780151813537

Edité par Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1948

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Synopsis :

Book by Merton Thomas

Présentation de l'éditeur: The complete and unedited edition of Thomas Merton's famous autobiography, one of the greatest works of spiritual pilgrimage ever written. Travelling in his early years with his artist father in the United States, France and England, Thomas Merton prided himself on his worldly accomplishments. His year at Clare College, Cambridge, was indulgent, and although Columbia University to which he went next suited his temperament better, it did nothing to assuage his restlessness. Gradually Merton recognized his need for faith and became a Catholic. With his baptism he began entertaining thoughts of monasticism but his desire to enter the priesthood in a Franciscan monastery came to nothing, and he remained a lay teaching member of the order for some time. However, when he was twenty-seven he made a retreat to a Trappist monastery in Kentucky. This momentous experience convinced him that the silence of the Cistercian Order was what he craved. The Seven Storey Mountain tells the story of Merton's search for faith and peace in a world which first fascinated and then appalled him. It is written with the profound insight of a man who has seen himself clearly.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Seven Storey Mountain
Éditeur : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Date d'édition : 1948
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket