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Main Author: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
Other Authors: O'Connell, Patrick F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2013]
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240 1 0 |a Essays.  |k Selections 
245 1 0 |a Selected essays /  |c Thomas Merton ; edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O'Connell. 
264 1 |a Maryknoll, New York :  |b Orbis Books,  |c [2013] 
300 |a xviii, 492 pages ;  |c 25 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 478-480) and index. 
505 0 |a The white pebble -- St. John of the Cross -- Poetry and contemplation: a reappraisal -- Boris Pasternak and the people with watch chains -- The recovery of paradise -- Notes for a philosophy of solitude -- Theology of creativity -- Christian culture needs oriental wisdom -- Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra concerning giants -- Peace: a religious responsibility -- The humanity of Christ in monastic prayer -- Message to poets -- A tribute to Gandhi -- From pilgrimage to crusade -- Religion and race in the United States -- Rain and the rhinoceros -- The contemplative life in the modern world -- Day of a stranger -- Symbolism: communication or communion -- The other side of despair -- The time of the end is the time of no room -- Blessed are the meek -- Events and pseudo-events -- The spiritual father in the desert tradition -- Is the world a problem? -- A Christian looks at Zen -- Terror and the absurd -- The monastic renewal: problems and prospects -- "Baptism in the forest": wisdom and initiation in William Faulkner -- Ishi: a meditation -- Learning to live -- The wild places -- Final integration: toward a "monastic therapy". 
650 0 |a American essays  |y 20th century. 
700 1 |a O'Connell, Patrick F. 
700 1 2 |a Merton, Thomas,  |d 1915-1968.  |t White pebble. 
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