First lines: "'Every other man is a piece of myself,' says Thomas Merton in the prologue to this book, 'for I am a"... Citation: Ave Maria 81 (30 April 1955): 23. R.L. Langlois.
First lines: "The Trappist monk has produced another book to go beside his "Seeds of Contemplation" and "The Seven"... Citation: World Herald Omaha Nebraska (8 May 1955).
First lines: "In the world of the spirit there is no isolationism. "We are all members one of another," St. Paul"... Citation: Saturday Review 38 (14 May 1955): 19,39. Ann F. Wolfe.
First lines: "This is another book of contemplation, of, as its author says, "reflections on certain aspects of"... Citation: News Birmingham AL (8 May 1955). M.V.
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. Edward H. Peter CSP]. Incomplete copy.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, who is Father Louis in the Cistercian Order at the Abbey of Gethsemani, made a"... Citation: Star Fort Worth TX (19 June 1955). Harold Monroe.
First lines: "This book, by the noted author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," consists of a series of reflections"... Citation: Tribune Chicago, IL (26 June 1955). John A. O'Brien.
First lines: "St. Thomas in his exposition De Trinitate quotes Peter Lombard to the effect that theological"... Citation: Worship 29 (September 1955): 495-497. Gerard S. Sloyan.
First lines: "No Man is an Island is an absorbing book which achieves a very difficult task in a remarkably simple"... Citation: Blackfriars 38 (February 1957): 84-85.
First lines: "'Honestly I do not think it matters a bit"... Citation: The Merton Annual 26 (2013): 213-216.
First lines: "Two books, same size, different colours,"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 20.1 (Easter 2013): 49-51.
Reviews of Original Child Bomb: points for meditation to be scratch on the walls of a cave.
First lines: "In less than 250 understatements, Thomas Merton reports on the preparation"... Citation: Ave Maria (26 May 196) 26.
First lines: "the seventh volume of Merton's journals opens a last revealing window on the life of one of the most"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago] 94.21 (July 1998): 1835. Steve Schroeder.
First lines: "Patrick Hart, one of Merton's brother Trappists, close friend, and (for the past several decades)"... Citation: Church History 68.1 (March 1999): 230-31. Mark S. Massa SJ.
First lines: "In this seventh and final volume of Thomas Merton's journals, entries cover the last months of his"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 35.1 (2000): 138-39. James Palmigiano.
First lines: "This attractive volume, the seventh and final in the series of Merton's private journals, covers the"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 51.2 (June 2000) 227-230.
First lines: "Thirty years ago this year, Thomas Merton"... Citation: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (September 27, 1998).
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First lines: "I am frequently asked what I think might have happened if Thomas Merton, the Abbey of Gethsemani"... Citation: America 174.12 (13 April 1996): 28-29.
First lines: "Between 1961 and 1968, Merton increasingly focused his attention on the Vietnam War and racism"... Citation: Library Journal 120.12 (1 July 1995): 88.
First lines: "William H. Shannon, the biographer of the great American Catholic apostle of nonviolence and racial"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago] 91.17 (May 1 1995): 1535-1536.
First lines: "I am frequently asked what I think might have happened if Thomas Merton,"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 2.2 (Advent 1995): 54-56.
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First lines: "In an age now dominated by headlines featuring the latest installments in the "war on"... Citation: International Journal of Practical Theology 11.2 (2007): 325-326.
First lines: "'Thank you for your kind letter telling me that you had given the"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 40.3 (2005): 344-346.
First lines: "It is good that these essays have been reprinted. The first set belongs to the 1950s, while the"... Citation: Indian Journal of Theology 27 (January-March 1978): 43-48. J.D.M. Stuart.
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First lines: "Interest in Thomas Merton continues in ever-widening circles, and although the five"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 37:1 (Spring 2012): 27-28.
Reviews of Raids on the Unspeakable.
First lines: "Once More we have the work of Thomas Merton, this time in two books published almost simultaneously"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 3 (21 December 1966): 9. Michele Murray.
Reviews of Redeeming the Time: the Catholic church after Vatican II.
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First lines: "During 1988-89, innumerable twentieth anniversary events commemorated the death of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Mid-Stream: An Ecumenical Journal 30.1 (January 1991): 35-39. George Kilcourse.
First lines: "Thomas Merton was, in his mind, at all times a monk. His other vocation, the writing of poetry and"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (17 September 1989): 25. Dulcie Leimbach.
First lines: "The persistent interest in Thomas Merton, poet, essayist and aesthete, who became a convert to"... Citation: Foundation News (May-June 1991): 61. Abigail McCarthy.
First lines: "Thomas Merton successfully lived an apparent paradox: a contemplative monk who wrote books, poems"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 236.1 (17 July 1989): 43. Genevieve Stuttaford.
First lines: "After four years of waiting, the second volume of the Merton letters, The Road to Joy, is"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 14:4 (Autumn 1989): 10-12.
First lines: "The perdurance of Thomas Merton's influence and importance to contemporary spirituality"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 14:4 (Autumn 1989): 15-19.
First lines: "In addition to the works that Thomas Merton intended for publication,"... Citation: Catholic Historical Review 96.4 (October 2010): 768-769.
First lines: "This is the fourth work of Thomas Merton's novitate classes that"... Citation: Merton Annual 23 (2010): 286-288.
First lines: "First, a few words about this book reviewer, so the reader may know who is speaking." Citation: Merton Seasonal 34:4 (Winter 2009): 37-39.
First lines: "When asked by the editors of the Catholic World for some recommendations for the summer reader, a"... Citation: Catholic World 238.1425 (May 1995): 136-137. Lawrence S. Cunningham.
First lines: "Writing to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns "lack an image"... Citation: Commonweal 124.15 (12 September 1997): 36-37. Bernard G. Prusak.
First lines: "This is the first of seven volumes of the journals of Thomas Merton, who was a Trappist monk, poet,"... Citation: Indianapolis Star (1 October 1995): C1. David R. Richards.
First lines: "When the great Trappist monk and prolific author of spiritual works died in 1968, his will specified"... Citation: Dallas Morning News (12 August 1995): 2D. Joe Michael Fiest.
First lines: "The first volume of the private journals of Thomas Merton begins with their 24-year-old author"... Citation: Plain Dealer [Cleveland] (3 September 1995): 12-J. Robert Finn.
First lines: "This is the first of a projected seven-volume series of Merton journals, the ones his literary trust"... Citation: New Dimensions 22.4 (Autumn 1995): 34. Michael Toms.
First lines: "It is Saturday, September 30, 1939, a damp early autumn evening in New York City"... Citation: Merton Annual 9: 303-313 [online].
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First lines: "After making only a cursory examination of the life of Saint Peter of Tarentaise, one is struck by the similarity"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 36.3 (2001): 337-347.
Reviews of The School of Charity: the letters of Thomas Merton on religious renewal and spiritual direction / selected and edited by Patrick Hart.
First lines: "The School of Charity is the third volume of Thomas Merton's letters to appear, and while it may be"... Citation: America 163.12 (27 October 1990): 309. Bonnie Thurston.
First lines: "The third volume of Thomas Merton's letters (two more are projected) is a chronological printing of"... Citation: Commonweal 118.8 (19 April): 270. Lawrence S. Cunningham.
First lines: "Dear Brother Louie, I have just finished reading The School of Charity, letters you wrote to"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 16.2 (Spring 1991): 20-22. Mary Milligan RSHM.
First lines: "Named for a term taken from St. Bernard of Clairvaux referring to the monastery, The School of"... Citation: Parabola 16.1 (1991): 124-126. Wayne Teasdale.
First lines: "Divided into three sections on the early, middle formative and later solitary years of Thomas"... Citation: St. Anthony Messenger 99.1 (June 1991): 52. Lawrence S. Ventine.
First lines: "This is the third volume of Merton's collected letters which has been published." Citation: Monos 3.4 (April/May 1991): 10-11.
First lines: "If you want to give someone a Christmas present"... Citation: North Carolina Catholic (December 16, 1990).
First lines: "'Is it really a good idea to know this person so well?' I mused upon finishing the third of seven"... Citation: America 175.14 (9 November 1996): 24-26. Bonnie Thurston.
First lines: "The Thomas Merton revealed in these journals is the quintessentially restless American, ever"... Citation: Christian Century 113.18 (22-29 May 1996): 570-571. Anne E. Carr.
First lines: "As a young monk, Thomas Merton was advised by Evelyn Waugh "to put books aside and write serious"... Citation: Journal of Religion 66.4 (October 1986): 458-459. Elena Malits.
First lines: "Here is the first of a projected four volumes that will share with us the inner thoughts of the"... Citation: National Review 38.7 (25 April 1986): 54-56. Peter Stravinskas.
First lines: "Merton, Cistercian monk, author of over 40 books of autobiography, poetry, and essays on literature,"... Citation: Theology Today 43.1 (April 1986): 148. Dewey Weiss Kramer.
First lines: "It is the paradox of formation in the midst of deformation, of consonance out of dissonance that"... Citation: Commonweal 113.4 (28 February 1986): 118. Susan Annette Muto.
First lines: "To date 3,500 of Thomas Merton's letters have been collected, and more are expected to turn up in"... Citation: Houston Post (21 July 1985): 2G. David A. Duncan.
First lines: "Thomas Merton spent 27 years as a monk in the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance,"... Citation: Jackson Sun (29 September 1985): 4B. E. Harrell Phillips.
First lines: "Since Thomas Merton's accidental death in 1968, we have seen everything from picture books on people"... Citation: Los Angeles Times (13 October 1985). Peter LaSalle.
First lines: "Thomas Merton could not write. He compulsively contemplated on thinking-writing. In 27 years of"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 22.29 (16 May 1986): 12. Charles Kinzie.
First lines: "The corpus of literature in this country concerning Thomas Merton continues to grow with Collins'"... Citation: Priests and People 4.10 (November 1990): 426. Paul M. Pearson.
First lines: "It is ironic that the novelist Evelyn Waugh had once advised the late Thomas Merton to quit writing"... Citation: This World (Fall 1985): 135-138. Thomas P. McDonnell.
First lines: "The corpus of literature by and about Thomas Merton continues to grow apace. Two important books"... Citation: Way [London] 31.2 (April 1991): 174-176. Paul M. Pearson.
Citation: Katallagete 9.3 (Summer 1986): 7-14.
First lines: "Supposing the bets could be collected, which of this century's prophets and sages would a gambler back"... Citation: Tablet [London] 242.7741 (26 Nov. 1988): 1354.
First lines: "Thomas Merton traveled far in the quiet confines"... Citation: Sunday Telegram Worcester, MA (September 29, 1985).
First lines: "This volume of 669 pages provides an overview of one aspect of Thomas Merton's complex"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 21.4 (1986): 365-373.
Reviews of A Hidden Wholeness; The Visual World of Thomas Merton. Photographs by Thomas Merton and John Howard Griffin. Text by John Howard Griffin..
First lines: "John Howard Griffin, long-time friend and now official biographer of the late Thomas Merton,"... Citation: Courier Journal & Louisville Times [KY]. P. Shirley Williams.
First lines: "'When he left for Asia,' said W. H. Ferry, 'he was like a kid going to the circus.'"... Citation: Commonweal 92 (22 January 1971): 400-402.
First lines: "In "Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude," from Disputed Questions, Thomas"... Citation: Southwest Review 56.1 (Winter 1971): 86-90.
First lines: "Daggy has collected the special prefaces written by Merton for translations of his books into French"... Citation: Journal of Religion 70.3 (July 1990): 511. Anne Carr.
First lines: "Despite a title change, this new edition of Introductions East & West (LJ 8/81) is not greatly"... Citation: Library Journal 114.6 (1 April 1989): 94. Elise Chase.
First lines: "Merton was never able to do a systematic review of his writings, but he did take time to make"... Citation: Booklist 85.14 (15 March 1989): 1222. Sheila McGinn-Moorer.
First lines: "An acquaintance who happens to be a Jewish psychiatrist mentioned to me recently that he thought"... Citation: Canadian Catholic Review 10.6 (June 1992): 21-22. Ross Labrie.
First lines: "Daggy has collected the special prefaces written by Merton for translations of his"... Citation: Journal of Religion 70.3 (July 1990): 511.
First lines: "The title of this work derives from the celebrated preface to the Japanese edition of The Seven"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 293-295.
First lines: "This book is a somewhat expanded version of Introductions East and West: The Foreign Prefaces"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 14:2 (Spring 1989): 16-17.
First lines: "In comparison with the attention given to his essays, journals, and other prose writings, there has been"... Citation: Christianity and Literature 54.4 (Summer 2005): 627-632.
First lines: "Merton's poetry may well be"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 12.2 (Advent 2005): 44-45.
First lines: "This rather enigmatic title is typical of the strange, symbolic titles Merton"... Citation: Cithara 54.2 (May 2015): 63-64.
First lines: "The cult of Thomas Merton continues to grow, even now, 35 years after his death from a bathtub accident"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 39.43 (10 October 2003): 4a-5a.
First lines: "Any book that arrives in print 35 years after its author's death has an unusual history." Citation: Publishers Weekly 250.21 (26 May 2003): 65.
First lines: "William Shannon in his introduction to this last full work of Merton's to be published points"... Citation: Monos 17.2 (March/April 2004): 4-5.
First lines: "This book by Thomas Merton has been a long time"... Citation: Expository Times 115.10 (July 2004): 349.
First lines: "This is a con-volume condensation of Merton's journals, which have been published over the last few"... Citation: Library Journal 124.17 (15 October 1999): 76.Augustine J. Curley.
First lines: "You would think that having read all the multivolumed published journals of Thomas Merton, there"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville] (26 December 1999): I5. Dianne Aprile.
First lines: "For a Trappist, Thomas Merton had a lot to say. For all he abandoned, the world, first, and finally"... Citation: Independent On Sunday [London] (30 January 2000): 13. Bill Saunders.
First lines: "'If all seven volumes of journals are the wood, The Intimate Merton is only a path through them and not"... Citation: St. Anthony Messenger 110.2 (July 2002): 51-52.
First lines: "Though Thomas Merton died in 1968, the famous spiritual writer and Trappist monk"... Citation: Tidings 108.29 (20 July 2001): 20.
First lines: "'A path through the woods' is the description Hart"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 246.45 (November 8, 1999): 61.