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1. 1. Make Peace Before The Sun Goes Down

   The Long Encounter of Thomas Merton and His Abbot, James Fox

   

   A nuanced portrait of the decades-long relationship between Thomas Merton and his abbot, James Fox, chronicling their conflicts and evolving trust as they balanced monastic obedience with a writer-monk’s creative calling amid postwar changes in the Trappist order. Drawing on journals, letters, and archival records, it shows how discipline, candor, and grace gradually transformed contention into a mature partnership that reshaped life at Gethsemani and pointed both men toward a deep and durable peace.

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2. 2. An Art Of Our Own

   The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art

   

   It traces the emergence of a distinctly spiritual strand in twentieth-century modernism, showing how artists such as Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich rejected representational aims in favor of abstract forms meant to convey inner experience and transcendence. The book situates these artists within currents like Theosophy and mysticism, blending art-historical narrative with critical interpretation to argue that this movement sought to restore spiritual meaning to a secular, materialist culture.