Michael W. Higgins

In Stalking the Holy, writer and scholar Michael W. Higgins explores the Roman Catholic pursuit of saint-making - the pre-eminent Christian model, he argues, with its elaborate features and arcane cast of players such as the relator and the promotor of the faith. He points out that if saints are not actually made so much as recognized by the Church, nevertheless this official recognition is a form of manufacture, involving motivation, expertise, and risk.

The Pursuit of Saint Making

Stalking the Holy

Thirty years after his death, we are finally catching up to Thomas Merton as one of the greatest spiritual figures of the twentieth century. The genius and spirituality of this unusual man could not be contained in his life as a monk but spilled over richly into his life and work as a poet, critic, rebel, sage, and even artist and photographer. Merton was aware that he had heretic blood within him, and it soon became apparent to the world. The balding French-English intellectual living as a Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky took a vow of silence, yet corresponded with and befriended such luminaries as Joan Baez, Jacques Maritain, John Howard Griffin, Martin Luther King Jr., Erich Fromm, and Boris Pasternak. His famous autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, captured the imagination of a generation, selling more than six hundred thousand copies in its first year. Merton also took a vow of obedience, yet feuded constantly with his second abbot. As a monk he promised to remain celibate, yet he found himself passionately in love with a nurse he met while in hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. And at the end of his life, Merton, a monk within the western Roman Catholic tradition, was moving closer and closer to Eastern spirituality. This brilliant new book is the first to use recently released diary entries and correspondence by Merton and includes new insights about the recently published diary of his episode of the heart. Higgins compares Merton with William Blake, the monk's intellectual and spiritual hero, and comes to startling conclusions about the emotional and intellectual passions that drove Thomas Merton, a man and thinker for all seasons.

The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton

Heretic Blood

Kevin Burns

This illustrated biography presents the life and legacy of Henri Nouwen through interviews with his friends and family, including his brother Laurent, l'Arche founder Jean Vanier, author Robert Ellsberg, and writer Ronald Rolheiser. The book was conceived as a companion volume to a CBC radio series airing in September 2012, to mark the anniversary of Nouwen's untimely death at the age of sixty-four. An extensive photo section is included.

The Life & Legacy of Henri Nouwen

Genius Born of Anguish

Religion and the Media

The Muted Voice

Thomas Merton est désormais reconnu comme l'une des grandes figures spirituelles du XXe siècle, l'une des plus complexes et des plus attachantes aussi. Le génie et la spiritualité de cet homme hors du commun, loin d'être confinés à son parcours de moine, débordent de toutes parts dans sa vie et dans ses œuvres comme poète, critique, essayiste, artiste et photographe. Intellectuel et trappiste à l'abbaye Notre-Dame-de-Gethsémani, au Kentucky, Thomas Merton avait la flamme de l'hérétique. En dépit de son vœu de silence, il prit une part active aux débats de son temps et entretint une correspondance avec des célébrités telles que Joan Baez, Jacques Maritain, John Howard Griffin, Martin Luther King, Erich Fromm et Boris Pasternak. Malgré son vœu d'obéissance, il exprima souvent son désaccord envers ses supérieurs, et son vœu de chasteté ne l'empêcha pas non plus de tomber passionnément amoureux. Cet ouvrage pose un regard critique et sans retenue sur la vie et la pensée de ce moine à la fois sage et rebelle en s'appuyant, pour la première fois, sur sa correspondance et ses journaux récemment publiés. Au-delà de la biographie, il explore aussi la spiritualité et la poésie de Merton, grand admirateur de William Blake et catholique de tradition occidentale, qui n'hésita pas à s'aventurer du côté de la spiritualité d'Extrême-Orient vers la fin de sa vie.

la voie spirituelle d'un hérétique

Thomas Merton

Introducing John Moriarty in His Own Words

Geological Survey (U.S.)

Carl W. Stover

J. H. Minsch

B. Glen Reagor

Garnett P. Williams

D. G. Howell

R. B. Simon

Linda Graves Marcus

Robert Morrison Hamilton

Sam M. Pickering

David S. McCulloch

John Graham Vedder

W. J. Person

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People of God is a brand new series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men have known challenges and weaknesses familiar to most of us, but responded to them in ways that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each of them offers a credible and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day. Thomas Merton was the consummate post-modern holy one: flawed, anti-institutional, a voice for the voiceless. But he was also a classical traditionalist: centered, obedient, in search of stability. He was a religious thinker of remarkable insight, a social commentator of courage and conviction, and a writer of startling virtuosity. Michael W. Higgins recounts the life of this insatiable wanderer. He explores the various layers of influence and evolution in Merton’s thought and spirituality. This book tells the remarkable story of a life that remains to be understood from its beginnings and long after its premature ending.

Faithful Visionary

Michael W. Higgins

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