A look through the spiritual classic "The Seven Storey Mountain" to find out what shaped Thomas Merton's views on war and how those views developed in the first half of his life. (Note: spoilers!)
0:00 Intro
3:13 Early life
8:12 Leaving England/Cambridge (1934)
15:48 Communism at Columbia
---The Peace Strike and The Oxford Pledge
22:23 Merton discovers the need for a spiritual life
25:25 The "one truth people need to learn"
29:09 Rumors of war
---Signing up for the draft
40:41 Merton's draft number gets called
--discerning whether the war is just
48:52 Goodbye to a loved one
50:30 Thomas Merton: an enemy?
Source text:
Merton, Thomas. "The Seven Storey Mountain, An Autobiography of Faith." Introduction by Robert Giroux, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, Harcourt Inc., 1948.
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