Author

Contributions

  • Hart, Patrick. - Contributor
  • Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. - Contributor

Publication

2008 - Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Mich, Michigan

Language

English

Word Count

39,750 words, Guess

Page Count

159 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC271/.1022
  • LCCBX4705.M542 A4 2008
  • DDCB

Description

"Survival or Prophecy? contains the correspondence exchanged between Dom Jean Leclercq, a French Benedictine monk and scholar from the monastery of Clervaux in Luxembourg and Father Thomas Merton, an American Cistercian monk of Gethsemeni Abbey in Kentucky. Their correspondence over twenty years is a fascinating record of the common yearnings of these two monks. Full of learning, human insight, and self-depreciating humor, these letters capture the excitement of the Catholic Church in the era of the Second Vatican Council - and the perennial appeal of the life of monastic solitude."--Jacket.

Subjects

Topics

TrappistsBenedictinesCorrespondenceMerton, thomas, 1915-1968Leclercq, jean, 1911-1993Monastic and religious lifeTrappists -- United States -- Correspondence

People

Jean Leclercq (1911-1993)Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

Genres

  • Correspondence.

Series Statement

  • Monastic wisdom series -- no. 17

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