Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation

Year 1995
Type Book
Genre spiritual memoir
Tradition Catholic
Original language English

For For readers who already know Merton and want his unguarded private journals; long, and best read after The Sign of Jonas.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 5 of 5 essential
Difficulty: 2 of 5 moderate

The journals of 1939-1941, before he entered Gethsemani: New York, Cuba, St. Bonaventure, and the call to the Trappists.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 1 of 5
Scriptural 1 of 5
Experiential 5 of 5
Sociological 3 of 5
Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Run to the Mountain is volume 1 of Merton's complete journals, covering 1939 to 1941, edited by Patrick Hart and published in 1995. It is one of the seven volumes of The Journals of Thomas Merton, the complete private journals published by HarperSanFrancisco in 1995-1998, which Merton had directed should not appear until twenty-five years after his death. These are the journals of his last years in the world: life in New York after his conversion, a journey to Cuba, teaching at St. Bonaventure College and the decision to enter the Trappists, which he did in December 1941. Parts had appeared in his own revision as The Secular Journal (1959). The volume runs to 478 pages.

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Catalog IDW.7BK6Q2.2

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