{"product_id":"survival-or-prophecy","title":"Survival or Prophecy?","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover quarto in gold DJ. xxvi, 196 pages: illustrations; 22 cm Fine in fine DJ. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0374272069\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbstract: \"Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk who wrote The Seven Storey Mountain, spent his literary career in a cloistered monastery in Kentucky. His great counterpart, the French Benedictine monk Jean Leclercq, traveled relentlessly to and from monasteries world-wide, trying to bring about a long-needed reform and renewal of Catholic religious life.\" \"Their correspondence over twenty years is a record of the common yearnings of two holy men. \"What is a monk?\" is the question at the center of their exchange, and in these letters they answer it with great aplomb, touching on the role of ancient texts and modern conveniences; the advantages of hermit life and community life; the fierce Catholicism of the monastic past and the new openness to the approaches of other traditions; the monastery's impulse toward survival and the monk's calling to prophecy. Full of learning, human insight, and self-deprecating wit, these letters capture the excitement of the Catholic Church in the era of the Second Vatican Council - and the perennial appeal of the life of monastic solitude.\"--Jacket. Monastic and religious life. Benedictines -- Luxembourg -- Correspondence. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merton, Thomas; Leclercq, Jean.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46056162361602,"sku":"89272.0","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/holder_10_5a8637de-5734-44cb-b002-fa96928a06e1.jpg?v=1744101973","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/survival-or-prophecy","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}