For For readers interested in Merton's friendship with Jean Leclercq; a specialist's volume of letters, not a first book.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
Letters with the Benedictine scholar Jean Leclercq on monastic reform and Merton's search for solitude.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural1 of 5
Experiential3 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical3 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Eighteen years of letters between Merton and the French Benedictine scholar Jean Leclercq on the reform of monastic life in the 1950s and 1960s and on Merton's search for a hermit's life, with a foreword by Rembert G. Weakland (196 pages). Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2002, edited by Patrick Hart.
