A Search for Wisdom and Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self by Anne E. Carr

A Search for Wisdom and Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780268017354)

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A Search for Wisdom and Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self by Anne E. Carr

A Search for Wisdom and Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self

$20.00
A Search for Wisdom and Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self by Anne E. Carr

A Search for Wisdom and Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self

$20.00
Format: 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.

Author: Anne E. Carr
ISBN-10: 0268017352
ISBN-13: 9780268017354
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/1989
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d
By Anne E. Carr
By Anne E. Carr
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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.

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