The Seven Storey Mountain
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The Seven Storey Mountain
by Thomas Merton,
Publisher: Octagon Books
ISBN: 0882548433 Edition: Textbook Binding; 1983-05
by Thomas Merton,
Publisher: Octagon Books
ISBN: 0882548433 Edition: Textbook Binding; 1983-05
Summary: This classic of faith has touched millions of lives.
Review: n 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man
decided to give up a promising literary career in
New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from
where he proceeded to become one of the most
influential writers of this century.
Thomas Merton’s first book,
The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his
early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith
of extreme certainty, and his decision to take
life vows as a Trappist. Although his
conversionary piety sometimes falls into
sticky-sweet abstractions, Merton’s
autobiographical reflections are mostly wise,
humble, and concrete. The best reason to read
The Seven Storey Mountain, however, may be
the one Merton provided in his introduction to
its Japanese translation: I seek to speak to
you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell
what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if
you listen, things will be said that are perhaps
not written in this book. And this will be due
not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in
both.
decided to give up a promising literary career in
New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from
where he proceeded to become one of the most
influential writers of this century.
Thomas Merton’s first book,
The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his
early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith
of extreme certainty, and his decision to take
life vows as a Trappist. Although his
conversionary piety sometimes falls into
sticky-sweet abstractions, Merton’s
autobiographical reflections are mostly wise,
humble, and concrete. The best reason to read
The Seven Storey Mountain, however, may be
the one Merton provided in his introduction to
its Japanese translation: I seek to speak to
you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell
what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if
you listen, things will be said that are perhaps
not written in this book. And this will be due
not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in
both.
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