Soul Searching; the Journey of Thomas Merton: Directed by Morgan Atkinson. With William McNulty. "Soul Searching: the Journey of Thomas Merton" examines the life of a modern monk, a life filled with conflicts, controversies and love.

As a Trappist Monk, Thomas Merton became a prolific writer and was in dialogue with some of the twentieth century’s most influential figures, luminaries such as D.T. Suzuki, Rachel Carson, Henry Miller, Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dorothy Day.

Merton: Directed by Paul Wilkes, Audrey L. Glynn. With Alexander Scourby, Gregory Abels, John Eudes Bamberger, Flavian Burns. Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism.

DAY OF A STRANGER is an intimate portrait of world-renowned Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, during his final years living as a hermit from 1965 to his untimely death in 1968.

2024年11月2日 · Merton: A Film Biography: A 58-minute documentary that aired on PBS in 1984. The film explores the life of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk who was known for his social criticism, spiritual...

Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.

2013年8月9日 · Now Merton’s complex love life is the subject of a forthcoming feature film, “The Divine Comedy of Thomas Merton.” Not long before his death in 1968 at the age of 53, the thoroughly modern mystic fell in love with a nursing student half his age.

Here is the documentary that goes to the heart of the Thomas Merton spiritual journey, shot in locations following Merton’s very footsteps. Atkinson spent years researching Merton’s work, as well as interviewing his friends, scholars and authorities on Merton’ spiritual life.

The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas Merton is the story of Merton in the last year of his life, embarking on his greatest journey. It’s a story of adventure and search that takes the viewer from his home at the Abbey of Gethsemani, across America in the turbulent year of 1968 and finally to Asia for meetings with the Dalai Lama and other ...

"Soul Searching: the Journey of Thomas Merton" examines the life of a modern monk, a life filled with conflicts, controversies and love. Merton grew up embracing bohemian, intellectual pursuits which led him to communism which he put aside for Catholicism which led him to a strictly cloistered life in a rural Kentucky monastery.

2018年11月5日 · Here's a trailer for a forthcoming short film about Thomas Merton and the hermitage he lived in at the end of his life. Take a few moments and watch this.

In May 1968, Christian mystic Thomas Merton undertook a pilgrimage to the American West. Fifty years later, filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and writer Fred Bahnson set out to follow Merton’s path, retracing the monk’s journey across the landscape.

DAY OF A STRANGER is an intimate portrait of world-renowned Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, during his final years living as a hermit from 1965 to his untimely death in 1968.

2018年5月23日 · Here is the documentary that goes to the heart of the Thomas Merton spiritual journey, shot in locations following Merton’s very footsteps. Atkinson spent years researching Merton’s work, as well as interviewing his friends, scholars and authorities on Merton’ spiritual life.

1984年1月1日 · In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace.

2017年6月23日 · An hour documentary on the spiritual journey of Thomas Merton. Traces his life life from entry into the austere life of a Trappist monk until his death in Asia 27…

DAY OF A STRANGER is a short film about Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, one of the most influential spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Through rare audio recordings, this film explores the final years of Merton’s life from 1965-1968, when he …

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace.