| Bread in the Wilderness Contributor(s): Merton, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 081121348X ISBN-13: 9780811213486 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: One of Father Thomas Merton's best books, movingly expounding on one of the most beautiful parts of the Bible, the Psalms, presented here as a facsimile reissue of the 1953 classic illustrated book, designed by Alvin Lustig. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Living - Inspirational - Religion | Biblical Meditations - Old Testament - Religion | Biblical Commentary - Old Testament - General |
| Dewey: 248.3 |
| LCCN: 97000509 |
| Series: New Directions Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.51" W x 8.81" (0.57 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Catholic - Theometrics - Mainline - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bread in the Wilderness sets forth Merton's belief that the Psalms acquire, for those who know how to enter into them, a surprising depth, a marvelous and inexhaustible actuality. They are bread, miraculously provided by Christ, to feed those who have followed Him into the wilderness. Merton's goal in this moving book is to help the reader enter into the Psalms: The secret is placed in the hands of each Christian. It only needs to be discovered and fulfilled in our own lives. The new ND Classic edition of Bread in the Wilderness faithfully reproduces the beautiful, large-format original 1953 New Directions books, created by the celebrated designer Alvin Lustig and lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs of a remarkable medieval crucifix at Perpignan, France. |
Contributor Bio(s): Merton, Thomas: - Thomas Merton (1915-1968) entered the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, following his conversion to Catholicism and was ordained Father M. Louis in 1949. During the 1960s, he was increasingly drawn into a dialogue between Eastern and Western religions and domestic issues of war and racism. In 1968, the Dalai Lama praised Merton for having a more profound knowledge of Buddhism than any other Christian he had known. Thomas Merton is the author of the beloved classic The Seven Storey Mountain. |