The Seeker and the Monk, Sophfronia Scott
The Seeker and the Monk, Sophfronia Scott
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The Seeker and the Monk
Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton

Author: Sophfronia Scott

Narrator: Kellye A. Saunders

Unabridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/10/2022

Synopsis

What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun?

Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today.

In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times.

As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited, and intimate conversations on race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, and love. She asks: What is the connection between contemplation and action? Is there ever such a thing as a wrong answer to a spiritual question? How do we care about the brutality in the world while not becoming overwhelmed by it?

By engaging in this lively discourse, listeners will gain a steady sense of how to dwell more deeply within—and even to love—this despairing and radiant world.

About Sophfronia Scott

Sophfronia Scott is a novelist, essayist, and leading contemplative thinker whose work has appeared in Time, People, O: The Oprah Magazine, and numerous other outlets. When her first novel, All I Need to Get By, was published, she was nominated for best new author at the African American Literary Awards and hailed by Henry Louis Gates Jr. as "one of the best writers of her generation." Her other books include Unforgivable Love, Love's Long Line, and This Child of Faith. Scott holds degrees from Harvard and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sophfronia

I wrote this book and I invite you to join me on a journey of discovery with Thomas Merton. If you're a fan of the famous monk, you'll find new connections with an old friend. If you've always been curious to experience Merton, this is a reader-friendly primer that will bring you to his life and wor......more

Goodreads review by Michelle

In the first chapter of The Seeker and the Monk, Sophfronia Scott writes, “I've always felt my job is to offer a way of looking at things. To model a way of living just by being.” This author's “job” is the gift of this book. Scott's perspective, super-charged from her deep dive into Thomas Merton'......more

Goodreads review by Tim

For reasons I cannot fully ascertain, I’ve been slow to get into Thomas Merton. As in: it just hasn’t happened for me yet. Once, in my early years of literary exploration, I picked up The Seven Storey Mountain. It’s a book People Like Me are supposed to have read; I was aware of this. But I couldn’t......more

Goodreads review by Mary

Thomas Merton has been described as "one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past..." And now we see and hear Thomas Merton through the writing of Sophfronia Scott, an influential contemplative thinker of the present. A very thoughtful book.........more

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