This book looks to Thomas Merton as a "classic" theologian of the
Christian tradition from East to West and offers an interpretation
of his mature Christology, with special attention to his remarkable
prose poem of 1962, Hagia Sophia. Bringing Merton's mysticalprophetic
vision fully into dialogue with contemporary Christology, Russian
sophiology, and Zen, as well as fi gures such as John Henry Newman and
Abraham Joshua Heschel, the author carefully but boldly builds the case
that Sophia, the same theological eros that animated Merton's religious
imagination in a period of tremendous fragmentation and violence, might
infuse new vitality into our own.
A study of uncommon depth and scope, inspired throughout by Merton's
extraordinary catholicity.
