The Seven Storey Mountain

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religion / autobiography
The book for all seasons
THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN is one of the greatest spiritual classics of our time. Here is the extraordinary testament of an intensely active and brilliant young man who decided to withdraw from the world only after he had fully immersed himself in it. At the age of 26 Thomas Merton entered a Trappist monastery.
Father M. Louis, as he was called in the Order, tells his story with wit, intensity, and exuberance. In every sense a man of his times—the period between the two world wars—Merton spent his childhood in America and France. At twenty, an orphan, he returned once again to America where he enrolled at Columbia. Concerned over the social and economic injustices of modern life, he joined a young Communist group. Later he worked at a Catholic settlement house in Harlem, became a convert to Catholicism, and several years after his conversion entered the Trappist order. The latter section of the book forms a fascinating account of... Tovább

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religion / autobiography
The book for all seasons
THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN is one of the greatest spiritual classics of our time. Here is the extraordinary testament of an intensely active and brilliant young man who decided to withdraw from the world only after he had fully immersed himself in it. At the age of 26 Thomas Merton entered a Trappist monastery.
Father M. Louis, as he was called in the Order, tells his story with wit, intensity, and exuberance. In every sense a man of his times—the period between the two world wars—Merton spent his childhood in America and France. At twenty, an orphan, he returned once again to America where he enrolled at Columbia. Concerned over the social and economic injustices of modern life, he joined a young Communist group. Later he worked at a Catholic settlement house in Harlem, became a convert to Catholicism, and several years after his conversion entered the Trappist order. The latter section of the book forms a fascinating account of the daily life of a Trappist monk. Written from his cell in the monastery at Gethsemani, the seven storey mountain is more than a man's experiences with the outside world: it is the portrait of an inner life, the odyssey of a soul.
Bracing in its realism, deeply moving, and challenging in its message for man, the seven storey mountain is one of those rare books whose validity and meaning are ageless.
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