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001 2014033078
003 DLC
005 20150623082539.0
008 150120s2015 maua b 001 0ceng
010 $a 2014033078
020 $a9781611802252 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aBX4155$b.L57 2015
082 00 $a271/.125022$223
084 $aPHI022000$aREL010000$aREL092000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aLipsey, Roger,$d1942-
245 10 $aMake peace before the sun goes down :$bthe long encounter of Thomas Merton and his abbot, James Fox /$cRoger Lipsey.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aBoston :$bShambhala,$c2015.
300 $axii, 313 pages :$billustrationw ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 286-292) and index.
520 $a"A fascinating account of Thomas Merton's conflicted relationship with his abbot, Dom James Fox--by an esteemed modern Merton scholar. In the 1950s and '60s, Thomas Merton, a monk of the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in Kentucky, published a string of books that are among the most influential spiritual books of the twentieth century--including the mega-best seller The Seven-Storey Mountain. He was something of a rock star for a cloistered monk, and from his monastic cell he enjoyed a wide and lively correspondence with people from the worlds of religion, literature, and politics. During that period he also explored and wrote extensively on Buddhism, Sufism, art, and social action. The man to whom he owed obedience in the cloistered life was a much more traditional Catholic, his abbot, Dom James Fox. To say that these two men had a conflicted relationship would be an understatement, but the tension their differences in orientation brought actually led to creative results on both sides and to a kind of hard-won respect and love. Roger Lipsey's portrait of this unusual relationship is compelling and moving; it shows Merton in the years his imagination was taking him far beyond the walls of the monastery, and eventually, literally to Asia"--$cProvided by publisher.
610 20 $aTrappists$zUnited States$vBiography.
600 10 $aMerton, Thomas,$d1915-1968.
600 10 $aFox, James,$cAbbot of Gethsemani,$d1896-1987.
610 20 $aAbbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)$xHistory.
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Religious.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aRELIGION / Christianity / Catholic.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aRELIGION / Buddhism / Zen (see also PHILOSOPHY / Zen).$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781611802252.jpg