Thomas Merton, the restless Trappist.(Religion)(Critical Essay)

Quadrant | September 1, 2004| | Copyright

THOMAS MERTON, the best-known Trappist monk of all time, was accidentally electrocuted by a faulty fan in Bangkok on December 10, 1968. Unknown to all but a few friends before 1948, Merton erupted onto the wider American scene in that year with his spectacularly successful autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, which presented a revitalised Catholic monasticism as a cure for America's Cold War ennui.

Over the next twenty years Merton mutated from an over-confident Catholic apologist into an American guru delivering trenchant, but not always well-thought-out, ...

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