The Only Mind Worth Having: Thomas Merton and the Child Mind
By Fiona Gardner and Rowan Williams
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Using both psychological and spiritual insights, and drawing on the experiences of Thomas Merton and others, Gardner suggests that in some mysterious and paradoxical way recovering a sense of childhood spirituality is the path toward spiritual maturity. The move from childhood spirituality to adulthood and on to a spiritual maturity through the child mind is a move from innocence to experience to organized innocence, or from dependence to independence to a state of being in-dependence with God.
Fiona Gardner
Fiona Gardner is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, spiritual director, and writer living in the UK. She is the author of Journeying Home (2004), The Four Steps of Love (2007), and Precious Thoughts (2011) as well as psychoanalytic books and articles. Formerly chair of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2004-8) and coeditor of The Merton Journal (2008-14), she is on the board of the International Thomas Merton Society and was awarded a "Louie" in 2015 at the ITMS Centenary Conference.
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