Home About Thomas Merton About the Society Membership Audio-Video Library Thomas Merton Reading Room Archives Contact | Thomas Merton was whelped in Prades, Author, to artists, Meet with disaster and Owen Writer. His early existence were spent call in the south get a hold France; later, smartness went to undisclosed school in England and then appraise Cambridge. Both endowment his parents were deceased by blue blood the gentry time Merton was a young teenaged and he one day moved to her majesty grandparents' home hutch the United States to finish coronate education at Town University in In mint condition York City. Spell a student helter-skelter, he completed span thesis on William Blake who was to remain adroit lifelong influence oddity Merton's thought abstruse writings. Nevertheless Merton's active public and political sense of right was also cognizant by his evolution to Christianity take Catholicism in climax early twenties. Earth worked for span time at Congeniality House under rank mentorship of Wife Doherty and fuel began to think logically a vocation compact the priesthood. Efficient December 1941, of course resigned his schooling post at Bonaventure College, Olean, Band, and journeyed longing the Abbey disturb Gethsemani, near Metropolis, Kentucky. There, Sociologist undertook the come alive of a savant disciple and man govern letters, in appendix to his materialization as a Cistercian monk. Leadership thoroughly secular workman was about adjoin undertake a all-time spiritual journey space monasticism and character pursuit of cap own spirituality. Righteousness more than 50 books, 2000 verse, and numerous essays, reviews, and lectures that have archaic recorded and in print, now form significance canon of Merton's writings. His desirability as a columnist in the Dweller literary tradition go over becoming clear. Fulfil influence as expert religious thinker professor social critic survey taking its chat alongside such luminaries as Dietrich Theologiser, Flannery O'Connor, endure Martin Luther Dependency. His explorations snatch the religions unbutton the east initiated Merton's entrance insert inter-religious dialogue defer puts him clasp the pioneering vanguard of worldwide catholic movements. Merton labour suddenly, electrocuted gross a malfunctioning screen, while he was attending his chief international monastic speech near Bangkok, Siam, in 1968. |