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First lines: "Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning.."
Sin títuloFirst lines: "Oct. 9. A Moslem commentator, Zajjaj (d. 310), says some Christians, 'unable to bear the conduct.." Contents: 2 folders / transcribed from holograph journals / delivered to Thomas Merton Center 15 December 1982..
Sin títuloFirst lines: "It is very cold in the novitiate. The unheated room is bare, forbidding. A few novices sit.." Contents: Dated "Feast of the Assumption, 1963.".
Sin títuloFirst lines: "Thomas Merton, citing preparatory source material used in the 'Prologus'"... Citation: The Merton Journal 29.1 (Eastertide 2022): 46-50.
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First lines: "This volume is a selection of twelve later essays of Merton dealing with monastic life or closely"... Citation: Review for Religious 38 (January 1979): 153. Sister Donald Corocorcan OSB.
First lines: "Toward the end of his life the American contemplative Thomas Merton (1915-68) wrote: "Our real"... Citation: Theological Studies 39 (September 1978): 588-589. Frederic J. Kelly SJ.
First lines: "In their different fashions, both Father Shea and Malcolm Boyd deal in their boooks with"... Citation: U.S. Catholic 42 (Decemeber 1977): 50-51.
First lines: "This book is of particular interest to me with my particular concern for monastic spirituality." Citation: Monos 4.10 (Nov/Dec 1992): 11.
First lines: "Over the years of his brief monastic life the late Thomas Merton"... Citation: The Cord (September 1978): 252-256.
First lines: "No doubt there are even loyal readers of Merton who will raise their eyebrows at notice of yet another"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 62.3 (September 2011): 358-59.
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Reviews of Monks Pond.
First lines: "In Kentucky's literary galaxy, its poets are among the brightest stars. Many of them have attained"... Citation: Back Home in Kentucky (September-October 1989).
First lines: "Monks Pond is no longer Thomas Merton's little magazine filled with a series of graphic and poetic"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville] (22 July 1989): A13. David Kocka.
First lines: "Thomas Merton entered the Trappist monastery at Gethsemani, Kentucky, in 1941 and spent the rest of"... Citation: Sunday Independent [Ashland KY] (15 October 1989). Thelma Scott Kiser.
First lines: "Though these two works are as unlike as one could imagine, pairing them raises an"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 328-300.
Reviews of My Argument with the Gestapo; a macaronic journal.
First lines: "In 1941, before Thomas Merton had quite made up his mind to join the Trappists, he wrote this "kind"... Citation: Courier Journal Louisville, KY (24 August 1969). Joy Bale. Duplicate copies on items 22 and 23.
First lines: "'I am still trying to find out: and that is why I write... I will keep putting things down until"... Citation: Louisville Times Louisville, KY (22 July 1969). Barbara Zingman. Duplicate on item 21.
First lines: "Now published for the first time, this novel was written in the summer of 1941, shortly before"... Citation: Examiner San Francisco CA. (24 July 1969). Miles A. Smith. Also see 05, 10, 15, 19, 21b, and 23b.
First lines: "The manuscript of Trappist Thomas Merton's only extant pre-monastic prose work was in the hands of"... Citation: Times-Picayune New Orleans, LA (10 august 1969). Susan M. Wells.
First lines: "Twenty-seven years before his tragic death in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec., 10, 1968, Thomas Merton"... Citation: Tablet Brooklyn NY (4 September 1969). Father Joseph G. McGroarty.
First lines: "In January 1968, Thomas Merton reflected that My Argument with the Gestapo: A Macaronic"... Citation: Best Sellers 35 (February 1976): 347.
First lines: "From the pen of one world's great theological scholars emerges a thoroughly analytical, sometimes"... Citation: Fresno Bee (21 May 1967). Eddie Lopez.
First lines: "The purist, one supposes is not particularly happy with the state of theology today, however much he"... Citation: Long Island Catholic (11 May 1967). James G. Murray. Also see 04b.
First lines: "Here is a book that every thoughtful Protestant should read, not merely for the knowledge of Roman"... Citation: Times Roanoke VA (19 November 1967). J.J. Murray.
First lines: "'Fr. Louis' has returned to familiar ground (for him) and strange ground for the rest of us: he"... Citation: Christian Century 84 (10 May 1967).
First lines: "The multi-media publicity of the West has already banalized Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of India"... Citation: America (24 February 1968): 266.
First lines: "This book is the best result to date of Fr. Merton's growing fondness for picking from among his"... Citation: America (22 July 1967): 93-94.
First lines: "Through the years subsequent to the publication of The Seven Storey Mountain the paradox that was"... Citation: Renascence 12 (Spring 1960): 149-153. Therese Lentfoehr SDS.
First lines: "Meditations on the necessity of becoming one with God by the path of supernatural charity. The steps"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago] 58 (15 March 1962): 464.
First lines: "Religious contemplation aims at that unimpeded penetration of reality which often so tantalizingly"... Citation: Commonweal 75 (16 March 1962): 650. Leonard F.X. Mayhew.
First lines: "The mind and the pen of Thomas Merton have proved themselves remarkably fertile; and the singular"... Citation: Critic 20 (March 1962): 72. John L. McKenzie, SJ.
First lines: "Thomas Merton grows and does so with considerable grace. Those who avoid his writing on the"... Citation: Cross Currents 12 (Winter 1962): 104. Daniel J. O'Hanlon, SJ.
First lines: "If literature enriches in two ways--by recording the world of sense and by extending the borders of"... Citation: Worship 36 (October 1962):604-605. Kathryn Sullivan, RSCJ.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's "The New Man" is a book of meditations. The question of spiritual identity is the"... Citation: News Benton Harbor MI (14 February 1962).
First lines: "From the prolific pen of Father Thomas Merton comes this book of meditations calculated to promote"... Citation: News & Courier Charleston SC (18 February 1962). Frances Klumb.
First lines: "A book of meditations exploring the question of spiritual identity by Father Thomas Merton, author"... Citation: New York Herald Tribune Books (11 February 1962): 14.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's the New Man will also be published Thursday by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Father"... Citation: Pioneer Press St Paul MN (31 December).
First lines: "Reading is seldom more fascinating than when it involves the concurrent or successive experience of"... Citation: Tampa Tribune (4 February 1962). Holmes Alexander.
First lines: "Meditations on the necessity of becoming one with God by the path of supernatural charity. The steps"...
First lines: "There is an incising analysis in these pages of the interior life of man with God. A clinical study"...
Reviews of New Seeds of Contemplation.
First lines: "At first glance, it seems almost a superfluity to review such a well-known book. However, the"... Citation: Review for Religious (Summer 1972): 889. Sr. M. Romanus Penrose.
First lines: "This is undoubtedly one of the most read books of Thomas Merton apart from his autobiography"... Citation: Monos 17.1 (Jan/Feb 2004): 7.
First lines: "New Seeds of Contemplation orginally appeared in 1961, and it was itself a major reworking of"... Citation: Spiritual Life 54.3 (Fall 2008): 185-86.
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First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book fall easily within the genre of personal reflections and meditations, as"... Citation: Renascence 8 (Spring 1956): 153-157. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS.
First lines: "A book of meditations "on certain aspects of the spiritual life"--Love Can Be Kept Only by Being"... Citation: Retail Bookseller (March 1955).
First lines: "The spiritual life is the life of man's real self, writes Thomas Merton in No Man Is An Island"... Citation: Press Cleveland OH (5 April 1955). George V. Burns.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest book has neither the human appeal of "The Seven Storey Mountain" nor the"... Citation: Times Dispatch Richmond VA (10 April 1955). Louise C. Frayser.
First lines: "'I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman, plucking wild figs." Citation: Journal Providence RI (10 April 1955). William P. Kelley.
First lines: "Thomas Merton has established himself as the literary voice of Catholic America. Although living as"... Citation: Best Sellers 15 (15 April 1955).: 16. E.A Ryan, SJ.
First lines: "Thomas Merton is Trappist Father Louis. When he became a convert he did not use half-measures. He"... Citation: Catholic Universe Bulletin (29 April 1955).
First lines: "The writings of Thomas Merton, a monk, are so thought-provoking almost every sentence can easily"... Citation: Eagle Wichita Kansas (24 April 1955). Arch O'Bryant.
First lines: "This book, written by the widely read author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," is remarkable for its"... Citation: Sun Baltimore, MD (15 May 1955). Joseph D'Invilliers, SJ.
First lines: "Taking its theme from John Donne's famous "Devotion," this book of meditations on the life of the"... Citation: Booklist Chicago IL (15 June 1955).
First lines: "Thomas Merton, the prolific writing Trappist monk, aptly describes the latest book from his facile"... Citation: Republican Springfield Mass (19 Jun 1955). W.J.B.
First lines: "The most useful book since Seven Storey Mountain, for the general reader. Such topics as silence,"... Citation: Catholic Messenger Davenport IA (26 February 1956).
First lines: "The author describes this book as "My own reflections on certain aspects of the spiritual life." In"... Citation: Library Journal NY City (1 September 1955). P.T.
First lines: "This book, says this author (Father Louis of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) is"... Citation: Plain Dealer Cleveland OH (4 March 1958).
First lines: "The monastic life is experiencing its most remarkable revival since the middle ages. In "The Silent"... Citation: Tribune Oakland, CA (13 Jan 1957).
First lines: "'No Man Is an Island' was first published in 1955. This is the first large print edition of this"... Citation: Sunday Independent [Ashland KY] (27 July 1986): 12. Thelma Scott Kiser.
First lines: "The regular reader of Fr. Merton's books need only be told that No Man is an Island is a sequel"... Citation: Month [London] 15 (March 1956): 172-174.
First lines: "Let not the prospective reader be discouraged by another title drawn from the writings of John Donne"... Citation: Catholic World (June 1955): 234.
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Reviews of The Nonviolent Alternative.
First lines: "The most recent addition to the publication of Merton's conference notes,"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 74.1 (March 2023): 116-118.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, citing preparatory source material used in the 'Prologus'"... Citation: The Merton Journal 29.1 (Eastertide 2022): 46-50.
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First lines: "Two books, same size, different colours,"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 20.1 (Easter 2013): 49-51.
First lines: "Both Paul M. Pearson and Bonnie Thurston have done a remarkable job of extracting some of Merton's"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 37:4 (Winter 2012): 26-28.
Reviews of On Eastern Meditation.
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First lines: "Those of us who knew Thomas Merton realized that he was never particularly at home in the realm of"... Citation: Worship 46 (January 1972): 56-57. Richard [Columban] Weber OCSO.
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Reviews of The Other Side of the Mountain: the end of the journey.
First lines: "From Learning to Love, Vol. 6 of the journals of Thomas Merton: "M., my darling, where are you? The"... Citation: Globe and Mail [Toronto] (9 January 1999): D14. B.W. Powe.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's celebrity was a paradox: The more he seemed to withdraw from the world, the more"... Citation: Crisis 16 (July-August 1998): 46-47.
First lines: "I was a green young reporter"... Citation: Courier-Journal [Louisville] (9 August 1998): 5I.
First lines: "The seventh volume of Merton's journals, The Other Side of the Mountain, is"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 6.1 (Easter 1999): 55-57.
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Reviews of Passion for Peace: Reflections on War and Nonviolence.
First lines: "Following on his very successful books within the tradition of Merton's spirituality and his biography of Merton"... Citation: Monos 7.4 (Jul/Aug 1995): 7.
Reviews of Passion for Peace: The Social Essays by Thomas Merton.
First lines: "This book is a collection of essays written by Thomas Merton between 1961 and 1968." Citation: Merton Annual 9: 255-264 [online].
First lines: "A friend of mine, having recently seen the film version of Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, asked me to do"... Citation: Catholic Worker 42 (March-April 1976): 6-7. Richard [Columban] Weber OCSO.
First lines: "In a presentation last year, Parker Palmer wryly noted that Thomas Merton is a case of"... Citation: American Catholic (April 2005): 13.
First lines: "This book, intended for publication in 1962, is now published for the first time." Citation: Church Times 74.23 (17 June 2005): 24.
First lines: "To nie moze byc przypadek." Citation: W Drodze 7.395 (2006): 117-121.
First lines: "Thomas Merton (1915-1918) wrote this convincing critique of modern war in 1961"... Citation: Catholic Worker 72.4 (June-July 2005): 7.
First lines: "An excellent foreword and introduction by Jim Forest and Patricia Burton, who knew"... Citation: Theology Today 62.2 (July 2005): 290.
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Reviews of The Pocket Thomas Merton.
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