TY - BOOK ID - 77904342 TI - Thomas Merton, social critic PY - 2009 SN - 0813150590 9780813150598 9780813193380 PB - Lexington University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Merton, Thomas, KW - Political and social views. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904342 AB - Thomas Merton: Social Critic organizes and critically analyzes the social thought of the Cistercian monk who has become an internationally known symbol of the spiritual element in man. The author evaluated all of Merton's writings, published and unpublished, then discussed his interpretations with Merton personally. The result is a perceptive relation of Merton's social thought to its genesis in his own life experiences and contemplation, a faithful rendering of Merton's thought on the problems of our time.Merton, the author makes clear, called for a spiritual, social, and religious union. It ER -