The Wisdom of the Desert
The Wisdom of the Desert
£13.00
The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton’s favourites among his own books – surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit. The personal tone of the translations, the blend of reverence and humour so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contempation in the deserts of the Near East. The hermits of Scete who turned their backs on a corrupt society remarkably like our own had much in common with the Zen Masters of China and Japan, and Father Merton made his selection from them with an eye to the kind of impact produced by the Zen mondo.
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| Weight | 0.11 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20.27 × 13.31 × 0.69 cm |
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