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. |
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User Review - jd234512 - LibraryThingAlthough Merton prefaces the book by saying that this book is a random assortment of his journal entries and should be read as such, I was not expecting it to lack as much cohesion as it did. Many of ... Read full review
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User Review - LTW - LibraryThingHe calls himself a "bystander" relating to his aloofness as a monk. He calls himself "guilty" in relation to not living up to his responsibility for the outside world. As a monk, he calls himself a ... Read full review
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| Title | Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander Part 234 of Doubleday image books Image Classics Series Part 234 of Image books |
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| Edition | reissue, revised |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Oct 12, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0385010184, 9780385010184 |
| Length | 360 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / General |
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