My Lists
Featured Lists
The letters of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax
when prophecy still had a voice
By Merton, Thomas & Lax, Robert & Biddle, Arthur W.
- ISBN
- 978-0-81312-168-0
- Publisher
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2001.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2001
Biddle (English, Univ. of Vermont, emeritus) collects all 346 known letters between Thomas Merton (1915-68), the famous Trappist monk, and his best friend Robert Lax (1915-). They met while students at Columbia University, united by their literary interests. First Merton and then Lax converted to Roman Catholicism, and they also came to share a deep concern about peace. Their letters are a delight because ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
