When Prophecy Still Had a Voice: The Letters of Thomas Merton & Robert Lax (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813121680)

J. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a twenty-year-old sophomore when he was introduced to fellow student Robert Lax (1915-2000) in the Columbia University cafeteria in 1935. They were brought together by an admiration for each other's writing in the college humor magazine. Upon graduation in 1938, Merton converted to Roman Catholicism; Lax began graduate study in English and took a job at the New Yorker. Three years later, Merton entered the Abbey of Gethsemani, and he and Lax saw each other only f

Author: Arthur W. Biddle
ISBN-10: 081312168X
ISBN-13: 9780813121680
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2000
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.32w x 1.38d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2000 pg. 1654
Library Journal 01/01/2001 pg. 114
Commonweal 08/17/2001 pg. 29
Choice 09/01/2001 pg. 136