Interview with Kathleen Deignan,

Project: Morgan C. Atkinson Documentary Interviews: The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas Merton

Interview Summary

This interview with Kathleen Deignan was conducted in 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky. Deignan talks about Thomas Merton's travels to Asia, his thoughts on nonviolence, and his writings. She also mentions her own religious experiences with a lay monastic order, her life in the 1960s, and her compilations of Merton's writing.

Interview Accession

2021oh0995_mcadtm0010

Interviewee Name

Kathleen Deignan

Interviewer Name

Morgan C. Atkinson

Interview Partial Date

2014

Interview Keyword

Prose Intercultural communication Second Vatican Council Interfaith dialogue Economic inequality Lay monasticism Benedictine Grange (West Redding, CT) Dharmakāya

Interview LC Subject

Abbots Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. Monks Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre Theology International Thomas Merton Society

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