A Search for Wisdom and Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self

by Anne E. Carr

Book Overview

Though not a systematic theologian, Thomas Merton spent a lifetime writing in an immensely appealing way about the monastic tradition and mystical theology. One of the fundamental questions he examined was that of the self; for Merton the recovery of the true self is the "liberation of the image of God" in us. This study explores that process in the context of a few of Merton's works, showing his own development from "pious hostility" to the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268017352
• ISBN13: 9780268017354
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.