{"product_id":"make-peace-before-the-sun-goes-down-isbn-9781611802252","title":"Make Peace before the Sun Goes Down","description":"\u003cb\u003eA  fascinating account of Thomas Merton's conflicted relationship with his  abbot, Dom James Fox—by an esteemed modern Merton scholar.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     In the  1950s and '60s, Thomas Merton, a monk of the Trappist monastery of  Gethsemani in Kentucky, published a string of books that are among the  most influential spiritual books of the twentieth century--including the  mega-best seller \u003ci\u003eThe Seven-Storey Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e. He was something of a  rock star for a cloistered monk, and from his monastic cell he enjoyed a  wide and lively correspondence with people from the worlds of religion,  literature, and politics. During that period he also explored and wrote  extensively on Buddhism, Sufism, art, and social action. The man to  whom he owed obedience in the cloistered life was a much more  traditional Catholic, his abbot, Dom James Fox. To say that these two  men had a conflicted relationship would be an understatement, but the  tension their differences in orientation brought actually led to  creative results on both sides and to a kind of hard-won respect and  love. Roger Lipsey's portrait of this unusual relationship is compelling  and moving; it shows Merton in the years his imagination was taking him  far beyond the walls of the monastery, and eventually, literally to  Asia.\"A  minor masterpiece of moral restraint and historical reconstruction, and  by my lights, a moving portrait of Thomas Merton’s heroic, lifelong  struggle with pettiness and bureaucratic restraint. Lipsey gives us a  side of Merton seldom seen—Merton the employee and company man—and  surprisingly this reveals aspects of the writer's character not visible  from any other perspective. A milestone in Merton scholarship.\"—Robert  Inchausti, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Pocket Thomas Merton\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eThomas Merton's American Prophecy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Roger Lipsey’s premise that Thomas Merton and Dom James Fox  were each other’s unsolved koan is deftly illustrated in this, the  most complete and illuminating study of Merton’s middle monastic years.  His engaging writing combines (in the matter of Merton’s indult) the intrigue of a John le Carré novel with a poetic closing as beautiful as any \u003ci\u003erequiescant in pace \u003c\/i\u003e ever sung.”—Bonnie Thurston, Merton scholar and author of \u003ci\u003eTo Everything a Season: A Spirituality of Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e“Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down\u003c\/i\u003e is an enthralling book which I read straight through in two sittings. It describes in detail the dysfunctional relationship between Thomas Merton and Abbot James Fox over a period of some twenty years. Both men were powerful, each in his own way, competitive and deeply flawed. Though neither would admit it, they were probably too much alike to cohabit without friction. Because they were men publicly dedicated to a spiritual life much of the arm-wrestling was hidden under a façade of piety and politeness. Merton’s attitude is well known from his private journals; the position of Abbot Fox had to be sought in the archives and in the memories of those who knew both. Roger Lipsey’s narrative makes it possible for readers to arrive at a more nuanced perception of the tangled webs these two men wove around themselves and to interpret the relationship in a more balanced way. This study is essential reading for any future Merton biographer.”—Michael Casey, OCSO, author of \u003ci\u003eSacred Reading \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eToward God\u003c\/i\u003eRoger Lipsey is a biographer, art historian, editor, and translator. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAn Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAngelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton;\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently \u003ci\u003eHammarskjöld: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e, hailed as the definitive Dag Hammarskjöld biography.","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301773627621,"sku":"NP9781611802252","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781611802252.jpg?v=1767732148","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/make-peace-before-the-sun-goes-down-isbn-9781611802252","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}