Living With Wisdom - A Life of Thomas Merton"If you have to read one book about Thomas Merton, this is the one to read. it is concise, insightful, complete " Paul Wilkes This absorbing pictorial biography of Thomas Merton revised on the fortieth anniversary of his death tells the story of the extraordinary Trappist monk whose writings, including his classic autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, have exerted a profound influence on millions. Beginning with Merton's early life in England, his

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and Jesus: A Gospel

and editor of the IBMR

she attempts to reorient the reader by presenting other biblical passages (drawn most heavily from the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible) that offer female imagery for the Divine

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes is the John D

joy-filled example of humanity at its best

Nancy Pineda-Madrid

She has edited The Courage of Truth

In a world afflicted by violence

belongs among a small but growing circle of mature American commentaries that combine social scientific approaches [and] profound hermeneutical reflection

Merton issued a passionate cry for sanity and a challenge to the idea that unthinkable violence can be squared with the Gospel of Christ

and widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Evangelical missionary anthropologists