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- catalog abstract "By 1952, Thomas Merton's renown as the bestselling author of The Seven Storey Mountain was well established. During the years illuminated by this third volume of his private journals, Merton struggled to reconcile his celebrity with his desire for a life of hermetic silence and contemplation. Already at the Abbey of Gethsemani for over a decade, Merton was beginning to grow impatient with the strictures and shortcomings of conventional monastic life. Here he chronicles the search for a more authentic experience of the divine and of community that led him to explore Zen, existentialism, and the exciting developments in Latin American Christianity and literature, which informed his own Catholic spirituality and his views of the great intellectual debates of his time. Merton's private writing combines a poet's eye for the beauty of nature - in the woods and fields of the Abbey - as well as a fiction writer's instinct for the idiosyncracies of his brethren, the rhythms and tediums of regular observance, the strengths of the monastery and its weaknesses. It is, however, Merton's restless, compelling, unvarnished reflections on the question of what it means to be a monk in his own time that gives this journal its most lasting value, paying homage to monasticism and instructing all who value the contemplative life.".
- catalog contributor b8866659.
- catalog contributor b8866660.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "By 1952, Thomas Merton's renown as the bestselling author of The Seven Storey Mountain was well established. During the years illuminated by this third volume of his private journals, Merton struggled to reconcile his celebrity with his desire for a life of hermetic silence and contemplation. Already at the Abbey of Gethsemani for over a decade, Merton was beginning to grow impatient with the strictures and shortcomings of conventional monastic life. Here he chronicles the search for a more authentic experience of the divine and of community that led him to explore Zen, existentialism, and the exciting developments in Latin American Christianity and literature, which informed his own Catholic spirituality and his views of the great intellectual debates of his time.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Master of students, July 1952 -- March 1953 -- Master of novices, July 1956 -- May 1960.".
- catalog description "Merton's private writing combines a poet's eye for the beauty of nature - in the woods and fields of the Abbey - as well as a fiction writer's instinct for the idiosyncracies of his brethren, the rhythms and tediums of regular observance, the strengths of the monastery and its weaknesses. It is, however, Merton's restless, compelling, unvarnished reflections on the question of what it means to be a monk in his own time that gives this journal its most lasting value, paying homage to monasticism and instructing all who value the contemplative life.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 406 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Search for solitude.".
- catalog identifier "0060654783 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0060654791 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Search for solitude.".
- catalog isPartOf "Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. Journals of Thomas Merton ; v. 3.".
- catalog isPartOf "The journals of Thomas Merton ; v. 3".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco,".
- catalog relation "Search for solitude.".
- catalog subject "271/.12502 B 20".
- catalog subject "BX4705.M3515 A3 1996".
- catalog subject "BX4705.M542 A3 1995b vol. 3".
- catalog subject "Catholic Church United States Clergy Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968 Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Monastic and religious life.".
- catalog subject "Solitude Religious aspects Catholic Church.".
- catalog subject "Trappists United States Diaries.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Master of students, July 1952 -- March 1953 -- Master of novices, July 1956 -- May 1960.".
- catalog title "A search for solitude : pursuing the monk's true life / Thomas Merton ; edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham.".
- catalog type "Diaries. fast".
- catalog type "text".