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02172aam a2200277Ii 4500 001 0CF536BA81F911E58D57CB8FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151103010200 008 150605s2015 oru b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2015451498 020 $a 9781498209373 020 $a 1498209378 035 $a (OCoLC)910773571 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d EXN $d ISS $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d DLC $d WIO $d SILO 050 4 $a BX4705.M542 $b G73 2015 100 1 $a Grayston, Donald. 245 10 $a Thomas Merton and the noonday demon : $b the Camaldoli correspondence / $c Donald Grayston ; foreword by Douglas E. Christie. 264 1 $a Eugene, Oregon : $b Cascade Books, $c [2015] 300 $a xxi, 297 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index. 520 $a How did Thomas Merton become Thomas Merton? Starting out from any one of his earlier major life moments -- wealthy orphan boy, big man on campus, fervent Roman Catholic convert, new and obedient monk -- we find ourselves asking how by his life's end he had grown from who he was then into a transcultural and transreligious spiritual teacher read by millions. This book takes another such starting point: his attempt in the mid-1950s to move from his abbey of Gethsemani, in Kentucky -- a place that had become, in his view, noisy beyond bearing -- to an Italian monastery, Camaldoli, which he idealized as a place of monastic peace. The ultimate irony: Camaldoli at that time, bucolic and peaceful outwardly, was inwardly riven by a pre-Vatican II culture war; whereas Gethsemani, which he tried so hard to leave, became, when he was given his hermitage there in 1965, his place to recover Eden. In walking with Merton on this journey, and reading the letters he wrote and received at the time, we find ourselves asking, as he did, with so much energy and honesty, the deep questions that we may well need to answer in our own lives. 600 10 $a Merton, Thomas, $d 1915-1968. 650 0 $a Monastic and religious life. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210014704.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0CF536BA81F911E58D57CB8FDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search