This book is a unique introduction to Mertons vast body of writing, showing him in many moods: deeply serious, playful, reflective, questioning. It is ideal both for those who have met Thomas Merton before and for those reading him for the first time.
With an introduction by Monica Furlong -- Throughout his life Thomas Merton sought for the shining God and found it in the wilderness of solitude and silence. Yet few other religious writers have written so relevantly of the problems of the contempoary world and touched the lives of so many. This book is a unique introduction to Merton's vast body of writing, ideal both for those who have met Thomas Merton before and for those reading him for the first time. The Modern Spirituality Series presents selections from twentieth-century spiritual writers in a form suitable for daily reading and meditation.