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Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision. By Lawrence S. Cunningham. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999. xii + 228 pp. $16.00 (paper).

More than fifty volumes by and about Thomas Merton occupy two shelves in the Merton Corner of my study, and I think I've read all of them. Nevertheless, as I read this excellent study I kept thinking that Merton was an even more remarkable person than I had previously thought. By no means was my response due to any trace of hagiography on Cunningham's part (something that would have been anathema to Merton!); rather, it grew out of ...

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