Sophia

This book looks to Thomas Merton as a classic theologian of theChristian tradition from East to West and offers an interpretationof his mature Christology with special attention to his remarkableprose poem of 1962 Hagia Sophia. Bringing Merton's mysticalpropheticvision fully into dialogue with contemporary Christology Russiansophiology and Zen as well as fi gures such as John Henry Newman andAbraham Joshua Heschel the author carefully but boldly builds the casethat Sophia the same theological eros that animated Merton's religiousimagination in a period of tremendous fragmentation and violence mightinfuse new vitality into our own.A study of uncommon depth and scope inspired throughout by Merton'sextraordinary catholicity.