Conjectures of a Guilty BystanderIn this series of notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections, Thomas Merton examines some of the most urgent questions of our age. With his characteristic forcefulness and candor, he brings the reader face-to-face with such provocative and controversial issues as the “death of God,” politics, modern life and values, and racial strife–issues that are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander is Merton at his best–detached but not unpassionate, humorous yet sensitive, at all times alive and searching, with a gift for language which has made him one of the most widely read and influential spiritual writers of our time. |
From inside the book
7 pages matching Second Vatican Council in this book
Page 353
Where's the rest of this book?
Results 1-3 of 7
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absurd accept affirmation Anselm answer Aristotle Barth beauty becomes begin believe Bonhoeffer Brother Catholic Christ Christian Church Cistercian course culture death Desert Fathers despair destroy ethical everything evil fact faith Father fear Fénelon freedom God's Gospel guilt Hannah Arendt happy hate heart Holy human inner Julien Green justified Karl Barth kind light live longer look Louis Massignon man's matter means mercy merely mind monastery monastic monasticism monks moral myth nature Negro never nonviolence novices novitiate obedience one's ourselves Pacem in Terris Parousia peace perhaps person Pharisees political Pope precisely problem propaganda protest Protestantism question reality realize reason refusal religion religious Rossikon Second Vatican Council secular seek seems sense seriously silence simply society speak spiritual theology things Thomas THOMAS MERTON thought tion true truth understand violence whole word