Merton, Thomas - New Man, The (Bantam, 1981)
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Book Description :

The Wisdoof the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books-surely because he had hoped tspend his last years as a hermit.


The personatones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humoscharacteristiof him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers whsought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the NeaEast.

The hermits of Screte whturned theibacks on a corrupt society remarkably like ouown had much in common with the Zen masters of China and Japan, and FatheMerton made his selection frothewith an eye tthe kind of impact produced by the Zen mondo.

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