| Description |
xii, 273 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Epiphany of God in Weakness and Defencelessness -- The Context for Contemporary Christology's Renewal -- Merton's Turn to the Kenotic Christ -- Merton's Hidden Christ: Conversations at the Margins -- A Map through Merton's Christological Development -- 1. Abundance of the Heart: Merton's Experience of Salvation -- Merton's Affective Conversion -- Experience: The Shift to the Autobiographical Voice -- Early Sources Nurturing Merton's Turn to Experience -- 2. Shy Wild Deer: Personifications of the Inner Self in Merton's Poetry -- The Poet's Task: Merton's Theory -- A Poetry Chronology: The "Missing Decade" -- The Poet's "Paradise Ear" -- Merton's Poetic Voices: Choir, Desert, Paradise, Forest -- 3. Dance of the Lord in Emptiness: Merton's Kenotic Christ -- Preambles of Merton's Mature Christology -- Merton's Salvation-History Christology -- 4. Son of the Widowed God: Merton's Sapiential Reading of Fiction -- Relaxing the "Cramp of the Imagination": Person and Grace -- A Definition of the Sapiential Method -- Applying the Sapiential Method to Fiction -- 5. A Summa of Offbeat Anthropology: Merton's Antipoetry as Christology -- The Ironic Imagination -- Faith in a Post-Christian World: Authority and Freedom -- Antipoetry -- The Antipoetry as a Theological Anthropology -- Antipoetry: Antidote for the "Death of History" -- 6. A Common Spiritual Climate: Merton's Christology in Interreligious Dialogue -- "Wisdom in Emptiness": Dialogue with D. T. Suzuki (1959) -- Gandhi on Non-Violence (1965) -- The Way of Chuang Tzu (1965) -- Mystics and Zen Masters (1967) -- Zen and the Birds of Appetite (1968) -- Asian Journal (1968/1973) -- Critical Analysis -- Index of Merton Works. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-260) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Jesus Christ -- History of doctrines -- 20th century.
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Spirituality -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.
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Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
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Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 20th century.
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| Indexed Term |
Catholic Church Doctrines History 20th century |
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Jesus Christ History of doctrines 20th century |
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Merton, Thomas |
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Religion |
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Spirituality Catholic Church History 20th century |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Kilcourse, George, 1947- Ace of freedoms. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1993 (OCoLC)609320700 |
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Online version: Kilcourse, George, 1947- Ace of freedoms. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1993 (OCoLC)623259094 |
| ISBN |
0268006369 |
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9780268006365 |
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0268006377 |
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9780268006372 |
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