At Home in the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether

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Thomas Merton

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Description: This book contains correspondence between these two Catholics over an 18-month period from 1966 to 1968. At the time Thomas Merton was wrestling with ideas about monastic renewal while living at the Abbey of Gethsemani. Rosemary Radford Reuther was a professor of historical theology at Howard University. In a passage on their correspondence she notes, "I see Thomas Merton and myself somewhat like two ships that happened to pass each other on our respective journeys. For a brief moment we turned our searchlights on each other with blazing intensity." They write intelligently about Christianity, the social issues of the ... (more)

Manufacturer: Orbis Books
Release date: 3 April 1995
ISBN-10 : 1570750157 | ISBN-13: 9781570750151

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