In two myths, a parable, a broadside and a meditative study, Thomas Merton presents the latest developments in thought and spirituality that have abandoned the exclusively other-worldly position of his earlier work and have become increasingly concerned with the present critical situation of man in the world. Speaking as a Christian Personalist, he confronts the spiritual predicament of alienated man submerged in a brutally self-complacent and materialistic society, symbolized by the "Fat Man", antagonist of Atlas. (Taken from inside jacket)
Thomas Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, as well as scores of essays and reviews. Merton was a keen proponent of interfaith understanding.
Interest in his work contributed to a rise in spiritual exploration beginning in the 1960s and 1970s in the US. Merton's letters and diaries, reveal the intensity with which their author focused on social justice issues, including the civil rights movement and proliferation of nuclear arms. He had prohibited their publication for 25 years after his death. Publication raised new interest in Merton's life.
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