{"id":5995,"date":"2015-01-30T16:28:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T21:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2015-01-30T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:26:06","slug":"the-humanity-of-thomas-merton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2015\/01\/the-humanity-of-thomas-merton.html","title":{"rendered":"The Humanity of Thomas  Merton"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2331028237\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is an excellent short clip about the influence of the great Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, from PBS Religion and  Ethics NewsWeekly. He  opened up the realm of spirituality to everyone. \n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAny person on the street, if they were committed to it and devoted to trying it, then that path was open to them,\u201d notes the  documentary producer, Morgan Atkinson. \n<p>Merton came to the church late after college and after what some call a rather hedonistic lifestyle. He  finally settled  at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Louisville, Kentucky. There, he wrote books and became one of the most influential Catholic thinkers in the 20th  century.<\/p>\n<p>Merton\u2019s autobiography, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seven-Storey-Mountain-Thomas-Merton\/dp\/0156010860\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Seven Storey Mountain,<\/a> was a best  seller.<\/p>\n<p>Merton died in a freak accident in Thailand in 1968 when he was only 53. He touched a fan with faulty wiring and was electrocuted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excellent short clip about the influence of the great Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, from PBS Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly. 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