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Thomas Merton’s Gethsemani: Landscapes of Paradise

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For twenty-seven years, renowned and beloved monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) belonged to Our Lady of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery established in 1848 amid the hills and valleys near Bardstown, Kentucky. In Thomas Merton’s Gethsemani, dramatic black-and-white photographs by Harry L. Hinkle and artful text by Merton scholar Monica Weis converge in a unique experience for lovers of Merton.

Hinkle was once allowed unprecedented get entry to to many areas inside the monastery and on its grounds which might be most often restricted. His photographs invite the reader to experience the more than a few knobs, lakes, woods, and hermitages Merton sought out for times of solitude and contemplation and for reading and writing. These unique images, every accompanied by a passage from Merton’s writings, evoke personal reflection and a deeper understanding of how and why Merton came to recognize himself as part of his Kentucky landscape.

Woven all over the book, Weis’s text explores Merton’s fascination with nature not only at Gethsemani, but throughout his early childhood, all over his spiritual conversion to Roman Catholicism, and at the same time as a member of the Trappist community. She examines how Merton’s lifelong interaction with nature subtly revealed and informed his profound spiritual experiences and his writing about contemplation. Thomas Merton’s Gethsemani replicates Merton’s path on his solitary hikes in the woods and conveys the wonder of the landscapes that inspired him.

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