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Christine M. Bochen is professor of religious studies at Nazareth College, Rochester, New York. Particularly well-known for her work as a scholar of Thomas Merton, she has edited The Courage of Truth, one of the volumes of Merton's collected letters, Learning to Love, the sixth volume of his mostra altro journals, and Thomas Merton: Essential Writings. mostra meno

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The volume of Merton's diaries that dealt with his "love affair" with a young nurse, Margie Smith. By this point in the diaries, Merton has become a full time hermit. Moving further away from the obdient young novice of volume 2, Merton as always in full tonged battles with his Abbot James Fox,has been exploring eastern religions,trying to find the center which unites all. Then, he goes to a Louisville hospital to have back surgery,and falls deeply in love with a young nurse. Always honest with himself,Merton knows where this is heading, and knows, even in his early entries, that this will not end well for her. There is a sweet episode when Joan Baez arrives,and after Merton tells her about his new love, insists that they drive straight away to Loiuisville to go to her{they do not.}There is nothing salacious here,and Merton comes to grips with his poor treatment of woman in his early life{he had fathered a child in London, and mother and son had died during the blitz in WWII},and finds another side in himself. Interspersed within this is the usual Merton gold, the ability to see through modern problems for what they are{fleeting}, and come up with crystalline insights{his commenst on his prayer life while he is essentialy leading ,for him, a compromised life, are very interestin.] This is top flight Merton, now on the top step, cleansed and looking east,where on the horizon, is the next and last volume, and the Asian journey. Essential,non-sensational,always edifying.… (altro)
 
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LTW | Sep 1, 2006 |

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