Silent lamp : the Thomas Merton story / William H. Shannon.
Publication details: New York : Crossroad, c1992.Description: xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0824511662
- BX4705.M542 S48 1992
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thomas Merton's gifts -- The French years, 1925-1928 -- Oakham school, 1929-1932 -- Clare college, Cambridge, 1933-1934 -- Columbia university, 1935-1940 -- St. Bonaventure university, 1940-1941 -- Gethsemani: the gift of writing -- Gethsemani: the gift of the monastic vocation -- Gethsemani: the gift of faith -- Return to the world, 1958 -- The year of the cold war letters, October 1961-October 1962 -- The struggle for racial equality -- Monastic renewal -- Religions of the world -- Thomas Merton, a free spirit.
