×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal
352
by Thomas Merton, Ernesto Cardenal, Jessie Sandoval (Editor), Robert Hass (Introduction)Thomas Merton
Members save with free shipping everyday!
See details
See details
16.95
In Stock
Overview
This correspondence, full of warmth, candor, and humor, reflects the friendship of two men who worked to reconcile their intense spirituality with an urgent sense of social justice in a violent and troubled time.
From the Monastery to the World collects the correspondence between two of the best-known poet-priests of the twentieth century, Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal. The letters of Father Cardenal are translated into English here for the first time.
The young Nicaraguan poet Cardenal first came under the tutelage of Merton as a novice at a Trappist monastery in rural Kentucky in 1957. The letters they wrote to each other between 1959 and Merton's death in 1968 give readers a fascinating glimpse into the spiritual and political struggles of Mertonthen the most famous writer about spiritual matters in the English-speaking worldand Cardenal, the seminarian and priest who had left monastic silence to build a utopian community in his native land and later became a revolutionary and Minister of Culture for Nicaragua's Sandinista government.
These are the years when Merton deepens his readings in Zen Buddhism and Chinese Taoism, when the civil rights movement in the United States and the international movement against the nuclear arms race intensifies his sense of the need for social engagement. These are the years Cardenal is ordained as a Catholic priest and begins to create the spiritual community on the island of Solentiname, which would propel him to the front of the movement that became known as Liberation Theology, even as the reactionary forces in Central and Latin America waged a ruthless war against the Church's social reformers.
From the Monastery to the World collects the correspondence between two of the best-known poet-priests of the twentieth century, Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal. The letters of Father Cardenal are translated into English here for the first time.
The young Nicaraguan poet Cardenal first came under the tutelage of Merton as a novice at a Trappist monastery in rural Kentucky in 1957. The letters they wrote to each other between 1959 and Merton's death in 1968 give readers a fascinating glimpse into the spiritual and political struggles of Mertonthen the most famous writer about spiritual matters in the English-speaking worldand Cardenal, the seminarian and priest who had left monastic silence to build a utopian community in his native land and later became a revolutionary and Minister of Culture for Nicaragua's Sandinista government.
These are the years when Merton deepens his readings in Zen Buddhism and Chinese Taoism, when the civil rights movement in the United States and the international movement against the nuclear arms race intensifies his sense of the need for social engagement. These are the years Cardenal is ordained as a Catholic priest and begins to create the spiritual community on the island of Solentiname, which would propel him to the front of the movement that became known as Liberation Theology, even as the reactionary forces in Central and Latin America waged a ruthless war against the Church's social reformers.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781640091559 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Catapult |
Publication date: | 12/11/2018 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 352 |
Sales rank: | 871,576 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968), a monk who lived in isolation for several years, is one of the most well-known Catholic writers of the twentieth century. He was a prolific poet, religious writer, and essayist whose diversity of work has rendered a precise definition of his life and an estimation of the significance of his career difficult. Merton was a Trappist, a member of a Roman Catholic brotherhood known for its austere lifestyle and rule of silence in which almost all conversation is forbidden.
ERNESTO CARDENAL MARTINEZ (born January 20, 1925) is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He is a Liberation Theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965-1977). A member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987.
ERNESTO CARDENAL MARTINEZ (born January 20, 1925) is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He is a Liberation Theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965-1977). A member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Robert HassThe Letters
Translator's Afterword
Appendix:
Chronology and Landscape
From the Spanish of Ernesto Cardenal Selections from Gethsemani, KY (Translated by Thomas Merton)
Notes to the Text
Index
Customer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
Karen E. Bender burst on to the literary scene a decade ago with her luminous ...
Karen E. Bender burst on to the literary scene a decade ago with her luminous
first novel, Like Normal People, which garnered remarkable acclaim.A Town of Empty Rooms presents the story of Serena and Dan Shine, estranged from one another ...
For centuries, the Andes have caught the imagination of travelers, inspiring fear and wonder. The
groundbreaking scientist Alexander von Humboldt claimed that everything here is grander and more majestic than in the Swiss Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathians, the Apennines, ...
For readers of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles, this genre-bending ...
For readers of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles, this genre-bending
exploration of the tragic figure of Branwell Brontë and the dismal, dazzling landscape that inspired his sisters to greatness is now available in a new ...
Cruising nighttime byways for an adrenaline fix, Scot Sothern first patronized the marketplace of curbside ...
Cruising nighttime byways for an adrenaline fix, Scot Sothern first patronized the marketplace of curbside
prostitution surfing the prurient whims of a young man. He dove to the murky depths of sexual obsession and resurfaced five years later, shell-shocked and ...
These profound Zen Buddhism teachings explained in ordinary language from one of the most respected ...
These profound Zen Buddhism teachings explained in ordinary language from one of the most respected
Zen masters of the 20th century are an essential resource for those interested in Zen meditation (Publishers Weekly).“You can’t see your true Self. [But] you ...
In this collection of three deeply bizarre yet comedic novellas, Hemmi delicately interweaves delightful commentary
with narratives contemplating the interconnectedness of life. The title story recounts the narrator’s relationship with a beautiful young woman who suffers from a mysterious condition ...
“Lake City is a darkly funny and extremely relevant debut novel about American inequality and
moral authority, featuring a sad-sack antihero who takes way too long to grow up. When he finally does, the results are beautiful, and the book ...
Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends ...
Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends
one beautiful September day in Port William, his home since birth, remembering.The story tells of the most searing moments of Old Jack’s life, particularly his ...