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Thomas Merton-Evil and Why We Suffer
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Thomas Merton is one of the most important spiritual voices of the last century. He has never been more relevant as new generations look to him for guidance in addressing some of lifes biggest questions: how can we find God, how should we engage with other faiths, and how can we oppose violence and injustice? Looking carefully, one can find, tucked away in Mertons prodigious writings, his response to another timeless question: Why do we suffer? Why does an all-powerful and all loving God permit evil and suffering? By carefully examining all of Mertons work, we find that he repeatedly confronted this question throughout most of his adult life. Intriguingly, Mertons approach to this question changed dramatically a few years before he died in 1968. An examination of all aspects of his life yields evidence that Mertons immersion in Zen during this time contributed most to that change.This is an intelligent study of Mertons thinking on a question that exempts no thoughtful person of faith: how to reconcile the God of love and mercy with the hard fact of unjust and senseless human suffering. David Orberson deftly charts the influence of Zen on Mertons life and theology in ways that are persuasive and often provocative, in the best sense, stirring new questions in the reader. A welcome contribution to a neglected aspect of Merton studies. -- Christopher Pramuk, University Chair, Regis University, Denver, ColoradoTo the frequently-posed question whether there is anything truly new to be said about Thomas Mertons work a half-century after his death, David Orbersons Thomas Merton: Evil and Why We Suffer provides a resoundingly affirmative response. In this clearly organized and lucidly developed discussion, Orberson examines Mertons ongoing engagement with the problem of theodicy, the tension between traditional belief in an all-powerful, all-good God and the reality of evil and human suffering, and boldly proposes the importance of Mertons immersion i
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