Jon M Sweeney

Awake and Alive: Thomas Merton According to His Novices

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Religion / Spirituality Religion / Monasticism Religion / Ecumenism & Interfaith [Orbis Logo] US$22.00 ISBN: 978-1-62698-463-9

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orbis Books
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 136mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781626984912
• ISBN-10: 1626984913
• Artikelnr.: 63431388

Autorenporträt

Jon M. Sweeney is Editor at Large at Orbis Books and the author of more than forty books including The Pope Who Quit, which was optioned by HBO, The Complete Francis of Assisi, Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart (coauthored with Mark S. Burrows), and Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life, Teachings, and Practices, published by St. Martin's Press and Penguin Random House Audio. Thomas Merton was a monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, author of a famous autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, and some of the classic works of spirituality in the twentieth century, including New Seeds of Contemplation and Zen and the Birds of Appetite. He died an accidental death in Bangkok in December 1968 after visiting the Dalai Lama in exile in Dharamsala. His other friends included Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King, Jr.