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- ISBN 9780268017354
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 1989
- Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 to a more humbling acceptance of humanity. The first full-length appraisal of Merton as theologian, this is well written but contains a few too many abstract phrasessomething Merton in his best work eschewed.
Sister Anne Carr was a Catholic nun, activist, and feminist theologian at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where she was the first female permanent member of the faculty.
