The Seven Storey Mountain

by Thomas Merton

Paper Book, 2017

Status

Available

Call number

BX4705.M542

Publication

Park Ridge, IL : Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, 2017.

Description

Biography & Autobiography. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:One of the most famous books ever written about a man's search for faith and peace. The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most demanding Catholic ordersâ??the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, "the four walls of my new freedom," Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it. At the abbey, he wrote this extraordinary testament, a unique spiritual autobiography that has been recognized as one of the most influential religious works of our time. Translated into more than twenty languages, it has touched millions of lives.… (more)

LCC

BX4705.M542

Original publication date

1948

ISBN

9781943243198

Barcode

31342000109933

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