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Who Is Thomas Merton

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Merton was a destroyed person because of his failure to marry Margie according to John Dear in his study of Thomas Merton Peacemaker in 1968 the brutal year of the Tet Offensive. Moreover in a society that seems to be increasingly polarized in which demonization rather than dialogue too often prevails Mertons teaching on dialogue and his example of engaging in loving dialogue merits more. Thomas Merton In New York Opendemocracy Thomas Merton 1915-1968 was a writer and Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. Who is thomas merton . Louis born January 31 1915 Prades Francedied December 10 1968 Bangkok Thailand Roman Catholic monk poet and prolific writer on spiritual and social themes one of the most important American. Thomas Merton was an Anglo-American author of French origin who is famous as a poet a catholic priest social activist and a great scholar of comparative religion. He was born in France in 1915 but his family left for the United States in the same yea