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A demonstration of how prophetic and transferable Thomas Merton's teaching remain in order to find unity in our creation of the image of God.
Merton still matters', writes Paul R. Dekar about Cistercian monk Thomas Merton. Calling people to act justly, love kindness and walk humbly, Merton used his contemplative practice to see beyond what disrupts and divides us from one another to find the truth of our common humanity - unity in our creation in the image of God. In Thomas Merton and the New World, Dekar focuses primarily on two issues of concern to our current world. First, he studies Merton's warnings of the abuse that stems from unmindful and irresponsible use of technology, and its ecological devastation. Second, he examines Merton's thinking on racial injustice in the mid-1960s through his correspondence with his allies and contemporaries - James Baldwin, for example.
Using Micah 6:8 to arrange Merton's focus on justice, lovingkindness, and humility, with input from Merton's dialogue with Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson and others, Dekar demonstrates just how prophetic and transferable Merton's teachings remain.
Merton still matters', writes Paul R. Dekar about Cistercian monk Thomas Merton. Calling people to act justly, love kindness and walk humbly, Merton used his contemplative practice to see beyond what disrupts and divides us from one another to find the truth of our common humanity - unity in our creation in the image of God. In Thomas Merton and the New World, Dekar focuses primarily on two issues of concern to our current world. First, he studies Merton's warnings of the abuse that stems from unmindful and irresponsible use of technology, and its ecological devastation. Second, he examines Merton's thinking on racial injustice in the mid-1960s through his correspondence with his allies and contemporaries - James Baldwin, for example.
Using Micah 6:8 to arrange Merton's focus on justice, lovingkindness, and humility, with input from Merton's dialogue with Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson and others, Dekar demonstrates just how prophetic and transferable Merton's teachings remain.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 186
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
28 September 2023
Trim Size: 5.98 X 8.98 in
ISBN: 9780718896850
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Spirituality, Christian life and practice
Foreword by Christine M. Bochen
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Merton Matters
Section One: Doing Justice
Introduction
1. Technology and the Loss of Paradise
2. Thomas Merton on Racial Justice
Section Two: Loving Kindness
Introduction
3. Wilderness of Compassion
4. Ishi, Messenger of Hope
Section Three: Walking Humbly
Introduction
5. The Power of Silence
6. Silence as Attention and Antidote
7. Divinization in Merton
Section Four: Merton’s Embrace of “the Other”
Introduction
8. Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton on Retreat
9. Merton on Gandhi
10. Thomas Merton’s Embrace of “the Other” Reflected in Letters with Ernesto Cardenal
Section Five: Reviews
Phillip M. Thompson, Returning to Reality
Christoffer H. Grundmann, ed. Interreligious Dialogue
Charles L. Cohen, Paul F. Knitter, and Ulrich Rosenhagen, eds., The Future of Interreligious Dialogue Stan Chu Ilo, A Poor and Merciful Church
Hugh Turley and David Martin, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton
Susan McCaslin and J. S Porter, Superabundantly Alive
Concluding Reflections
Afterword by Mark C. Meade
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Merton Matters
Section One: Doing Justice
Introduction
1. Technology and the Loss of Paradise
2. Thomas Merton on Racial Justice
Section Two: Loving Kindness
Introduction
3. Wilderness of Compassion
4. Ishi, Messenger of Hope
Section Three: Walking Humbly
Introduction
5. The Power of Silence
6. Silence as Attention and Antidote
7. Divinization in Merton
Section Four: Merton’s Embrace of “the Other”
Introduction
8. Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton on Retreat
9. Merton on Gandhi
10. Thomas Merton’s Embrace of “the Other” Reflected in Letters with Ernesto Cardenal
Section Five: Reviews
Phillip M. Thompson, Returning to Reality
Christoffer H. Grundmann, ed. Interreligious Dialogue
Charles L. Cohen, Paul F. Knitter, and Ulrich Rosenhagen, eds., The Future of Interreligious Dialogue Stan Chu Ilo, A Poor and Merciful Church
Hugh Turley and David Martin, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton
Susan McCaslin and J. S Porter, Superabundantly Alive
Concluding Reflections
Afterword by Mark C. Meade
Bibliography