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In this virtual series, there is a listing of papers and presentations for the 2023 ITMS conference. Conference description: "In his poem Hagia Sophia and other writings, Thomas Merton wrote of divine wisdom, often personified as Sophia. Representing both the Holy Spirit and the mystical idea of divine wisdom, the figure of Sophia played an important role in Thomas Merton’s spirituality and writing. This mystical image represents the divine in active terms, reaching into our souls and challenging us to new ways of living, of loving our neighbors, of standing for justice. Moreover, in Sophia Merton recognized an experience of God rendered in a feminine face. The significance of the divine feminine in Merton’s life and work connects aptly to the location of our gathering in 2023. Saint Mary’s College, a Catholic women’s liberal arts college, has long been a pioneering institution in women’s higher education, and intersected with Merton’s life in important ways. Merton corresponded with members of the Saint Mary’s community, including then-President Sr. Madeleva Wolff, and it was Saint Mary’s that first published Merton’s 1948 book What is Contemplation? More generally, Merton was shaped in important ways by women in his life — from his mother to the Baronness Catherine de Hueck Doherty to his longtime literary agent Naomi Burton Stone — and through his writings and correspondence engaged in extensive dialogue with women writers."

A bibliographic work featuring secondary sources about Thomas Merton from 1945-2000, including: books and reviews, articles and essays, theses and dissertations, news stories and interviews, poetry, arts, and media.

This virtual collection records papers and presentations to be presented at the 19th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society.

A bibliographic work featuring secondary sources about Thomas Merton from 2000-2015 (a supplement to the 1945-2000 volume), including: books and reviews, articles and essays, theses and dissertations, news stories and interviews, poetry, arts, and media.

Two lists of secondary sources listing writings about Merton.

Quotation: "Truthfully I have an enormous obscure subtle thesis that Blake is all full of Indian and Chinese theories of art, for a certainty. That he has read the Bhagavad Gita, I have found out, and then found out that others know this well. But they have not gone into this as I intend, and they say nothing of his art anyway, only explain he was tussling with the druids every word he wrote. But I do not up and be a loud roaring fellow and a stupid shit saying how Blake picked up some old Chinese book and writ down all his theories of art and poetry. I say how he knew about the Indian works from books of travel, how he read the Gita, how he was anyhow a fine mystic, how he read strange histories about the east all full of half modern ideas about how one race influences another through means of etymology, and the Greeks weren't so smart as to be all holy and full of truth of their own for that they swiped everything from India and Egypt the book states clearly. This Blake read. Anyhow he hated Plato"...

This Records Subgroup points to information datasets that index references in Merton's books, conference speakers, etc. It is not a representation of a physical collection, but may point to references within other collections in the archives. For example, the calendar database is a finding aid to discover pieces of correspondence by date found in Record Group 1.

This virtual collection consists of various list of bibliographic resources by or about Thomas Merton on various topics.

Patricia Burton indexed information about ITMS conferences between 1989 and 2015, including conference titles, plenary speakers and presentations, concurrent and special session speakers, session and panel titles. Further, classified presentations by subject and by title of Merton's work studied. From her division into themes, she created charts and graphs to illustrate the frequency of themes.

This virtual collection contains Patricia A. Burton's conference analysis from the First General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) in 1989 through the Fourteenth Conference in 2015 and will be expanded to gather presentation titles and information from ongoing conferences.

This records subgroup contains various indexes to The Merton Seasonal.

This virtual records sub-group consists of forms and documents that the Merton Center makes available to online researchers.

The contents of the volume include a Thomas Merton timeline (Journal Entries in full; Published Letters; Publications; and Life, Historical Events and Visits) and a publications list with titles of Merton’s books, essays, poetry.

This virtual collection is a list of all recorded references by Merton to a book he was reading which were recorded in the seven volumes of his personal journals, the original five volumes of his correspondence, and a growing list of other books by Merton with an emphasis on Merton's published correspondence.

This database was compiled by Willy Eurlings, chairman of the Mertonvrienden, the Dutch-speaking Merton Society from Flanders and the Netherlands, with technical help by Fieke Julius. The Merton Center is grateful for his permission to post this for use by researchers.

Conference paper: 'Sing about me, I'm dying of thirst': Kendrick Lamar through the Lenses of Thomas Merton and Johann Baptist Metz, presented by Laurine Ernst.

An index to volumes 1 to 25 of The Merton Seasonal (covering the years 1976 to 2000).

A digital exhibit bringing together many of the editions and reprints of The Seven Storey Mountain and foreign translations with scans and photographs of the cover art, dust jacket, cloth cover, spine, and first pages.

Version 4 of the list of visitors to Thomas Merton by date.

Lists of visitors to Gethsemani Abbey hosted by Thomas Merton. One list is sorted by name and one list is sorted by date.

A list of visitors to Thomas Merton at Gethsemani Abbey sorted chronologically with the name, source, and other notes.

A list of visitors to Thomas Merton at Gethsemani Abbey sorted alphabetically by surname with the source, date, and other notes.