{"product_id":"make-peace-before-the-sun-goes-down-the-long-encounter-of-thomas-merton-and-his-abbot-james-fox-paperback-2","title":"Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down: The Long Encounter of Thomas Merton and His Abbot, James Fox - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoger Lipsey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating account of Thomas Merton's conflicted relationship with his abbot, Dom James Fox--by an esteemed modern Merton scholar.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the 1950s and '60s, Thomas Merton, a monk of the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in Kentucky, published a string of books that are among the most influential spiritual books of the twentieth century--including the mega-best seller \u003ci\u003eThe Seven-Storey Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e. He was something of a rock star for a cloistered monk, and from his monastic cell he enjoyed a wide and lively correspondence with people from the worlds of religion, literature, and politics. During that period he also explored and wrote extensively on Buddhism, Sufism, art, and social action. The man to whom he owed obedience in the cloistered life was a much more traditional Catholic, his abbot, Dom James Fox. To say that these two men had a conflicted relationship would be an understatement, but the tension their differences in orientation brought actually led to creative results on both sides and to a kind of hard-won respect and love. Roger Lipsey's portrait of this unusual relationship is compelling and moving; it shows Merton in the years his imagination was taking him far beyond the walls of the monastery, and eventually, literally to Asia.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoger Lipsey is a biographer, art historian, editor, and translator. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAn Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAngelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton;\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently \u003ci\u003eHammarskjöld: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e, hailed as the definitive Dag Hammarskjöld biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53008565436723,"sku":"9781611802252","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/GuWUayXjf49781611802252_d72c8459-78a5-44d2-8f82-b61d7f9d7d52.webp?v=1769677362","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/make-peace-before-the-sun-goes-down-the-long-encounter-of-thomas-merton-and-his-abbot-james-fox-paperback-2","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}