Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton

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Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton Morgan C. Atkinson with Jonathan Montaldo, eds. The Liturgical Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8146-1873-8. 216 pages, paperback. $19.95.

The origin of this book is the set of interviews that Morgan Atkinson conducted in preparation for his documentary on Merton - by the same title - for public television and now also on DVD. For the documentary, he could select only a small part of the 100 hours of interviews he conducted, so he had left over a large amount of good material that he felt should be published (at least in part). The men and women he interviewed included some who lived with Merton, knew him personally, or studied his life and …