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Article: Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master, the Essential Writings.
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- April 23, 1993
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THOMAS MERTON: SPIRITUAL MASTER, THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS, edited and introduced by Lawrence S. Cunningham, Paulist Press, $14.95, 437pp.
Like the proverbial Cheshire Cat, Thomas Merton may have departed but he keeps making appearances. In the quarter of a century since his death, not only have his writings been issued and reissued, but he has been the subject of a steady stream of books, studies, dissertations, and monographs. A recent catalogue from Credence Cassettes offers over fifty Merton tapes.
The century's most conspicuous and loquacious Catholic monk, Merton was a man of paradoxes, if not contradictions, a hermit attached to place who died a long ...