First lines: "Many of the entries in this collection of letters by one of the 20th century's original thinkers are"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 227.14 (5 April 1985): no.14, p.60. Paul M. Pearson.
First lines: "These recent releases once again confirm the amazing magnitude of Merton's literary endeavors. The"... Citation: Spiritual Life 31 (Fall 1985): 187. Steven Payne OCD.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk from the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky,"... Citation: St. Anthony Messenger 93.7 (December 1985): 50-51. Robert M. Coughlin.
First lines: "Merton published so prolifically and with such candor that not even his personal and private"... Citation: Sojourners 14.11 (December 1985): 44-45. E. Glenn Hinson.
First lines: "Perhaps there is just a slight misnomer in the subtitle William Shannon chose for this first"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 10:3 (Summer 1985): 16-19 [online]. [Accessed March 7th, 2017].
First lines: "Reviewing A Hidden Wholeness is as exciting and difficult as coming to grips with the enigmatic"... Citation: Cross and Crown 23 (June 1971): 228-229.
First lines: "The title of this book aptly captures"... Citation: Catholic Worker XXXVI.8 (October-November 1970): 5.
First lines: "In the last three-and-a-half years"... Citation: Christian Century (25 November 1970): 1425-1426.
First lines: "These are the first two of what will surely be a banquet of books to publicly witness"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter [Kansas City, MO] 7 (19 February 1971): 11.
First lines: "When the astonishing energies of Thomas Merton"...
First lines: "Doubtless this photographic book by John Howard"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 7.2 (1972). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 288. [150-151].
First lines: "This book is a collection of the prefaces Merton wrote for foreign publications of his books, his"... Citation: Tablet [London] 244.7807 (3 March 1990): 283. Monica Furlong.
First lines: "Published posthumously following his death in June 2005, Basil Pennington's anthology"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 30:4 (Winter 2005): 33-34.
First lines: "This completely reconceived New Directions selection of Thomas Merton's poems"... Citation: Merton Annual 18: 349-352.
First lines: "Lynn R. Szabo deserves our gratitude for compiling this long-overdue volume of Merton's poems"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 30:3 (Fall 2005): 27-30.
Reviews of In the Valley of Wormwood: Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age.
First lines: "This massive collection of biographical sketches of twelfth- and"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 65.4 (December 2014): 438-442.
First lines: "When Thomas Merton died accidentally, aged fifty-three, during a conference in Bangkok twenty-five"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] (10 October 2003): 34.
First lines: "The back cover of The Inner Experience declares it to be 'Thomas Merton's Last Major Work.'"... Citation: Spiritus 4.2 (Fall 2004): 226-229.
First lines: "As readers of The Merton Annual undoubtedly know, The Inner Experience--Notes on"... Citation: Merton Annual 17: 341-343.
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First lines: "The 20th century has concluded. Thomas Merton remains the single most influential American Catholic"... Citation: America 182.7 (4 March 2000): 23-27. Richard J. Hauser.
First lines: "The title of this book conveys the perspective adopted by the editors in their attempt"... Citation: Citeaux 52:1-2 (2001): 177-179.
First lines: "Thomas Merton was an inveterate journal keeper." Citation: Irish Theological Quarterly 66.2 (2001): 191.
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First lines: "Thomas Merton was Novice Master at Gethsemani 1955-1965." Citation: Cr: Quarterly Review of the Community of the Resurrection 423 (Michaelmas 2005): 41-43.
Reviews of An Invitation to the Contemplative Life.
First lines: "It is no accident that this collection of essays by Thomas Merton on the native American"... Citation: America 135(18 September 1976): 152.
First lines: "In the last two years of his life (1967-68) Thomas Merton wrote five articles on Native American topics, four appearing in The Catholic Worker, the fifth"... Citation: Catholic Books Review [online]. [Accessed 10 Nov. 2015].
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Reviews of Keeping a Spiritual Journal with Thomas Merton: A Personal Book of Days.
First lines: "It is not too late to read about St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the eighth centenary of whose death was"... Citation: America (27 November 1954).
First lines: "The purpose of Father Merton's book about St. Bernard of Clairvaux is to focus the attention of the"... Citation: Catholic Standard & Times Philadelphia PA (11 June 1954). Frank Hanlon.
First lines: "During last year, the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, one of the"... Citation: Courier Journal Louisville, KY (27 June 1954). William Habich.
First lines: "The commemorative encyclical Doctor Mellifluus, issued by Pope Pius XII on the eighth centenary of"... Citation: Sign 34 (28 August 1954). Geoffrey Ashe.
First lines: "In the Last of the Fathers, Thomas Merton presents us with the complete text, in strikingly"... Citation: Catholic World 179 (Summer 1954): 478-479.
First lines: "Father Merton has seized the occasion"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 2775 (May 6 1955): 244.
First lines: "In this filial study the author sketches the life and work"... Citation: The Furrow, 6.10 (Oct. 1955): 658.
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Reviews of Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton vol. 6 1966-1967.
First lines: "Christine Bochen, the editor of this volume of Merton's journals, perceptively writes in her introduction"... Citation: Monos 10.3 (May/June 1998): 9.
First lines: "One afternoon in 1966, I passed Fr Louis on his way from 'the steel building' where one of the three"... Citation: Merton Annual 11: 199-203.
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Reviews of Lent and Easter Wisdom.
Reviews of Letters from Tom: A Selection of Letters from Father Thomas Merton, Monk of Gethsemani, to W. H. Ferry 1961-1968.
First lines: "We are gradually but unmistakably moving into a new phase of Merton studies." Citation: Merton Seasonal 9:2 (Summer 1984): 14-15 [online]. [Accessed March 8th, 2017].
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First lines: "Patrick Samway, SJ is professor"... Citation: American Catholic Studies 127.3 (Fall 2016): 69-70.
First lines: "Even casual readers of Thomas"... Citation: Commonweal 144.3 (February 10, 2017): 35.
First lines: "Few people were as influential in Merton's writing career as Robert"... Citation: Choice Connect 53.6 (February 2016) 867.
First lines: "Thomas Merton’s dedicated readers have roadmaps through his life and"... Citation: Merton Annual 28: 239-240.
First lines: "As with most epistolary adventures between famous individuals, readers"... Citation: Merton Annual 29: 237-239.
First lines: "The already published correspondence of Thomas Merton takes up a fair amount of shelf space"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 40.4 (Winter 2015): 39-40.
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First lines: "In addition to the five volumes of letters written by Trappist monk"... Citation: Cithara 54.2 (May 2015): 65-67.
First lines: "Books about Thomas Merton proliferated around 2015, the centenary of his"... Citation: The Catholic Historical Review 102.2 (Spring 2016): 433-434.
Reviews of The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis.
Reviews of Life and Holiness.
First lines: "The author of this books is a Trappist priest at the monastery of Gethsemani, in Kentucky. He is"... Citation: Princeton Seminary Bulletin (May 1963). John R. Killinger.
First lines: "'The Spiritual life is not a life of quiet withdrawal, a hothouse growth of artificial ascetical"... Citation: Review for Religious 23.4 (July 1964): 509. Lewis Carlino.
First lines: "Thomas Merton states that this work "is intended to be a very simple book, an elementary treatment"... Citation: Tablet [London] 218 (18 January 1964): 74-75.
First lines: "In five chapters Father Merton explores such basic elements in Christian spirituality as the nature"... Citation: American Ecclesiastical Review 151 (July 1964): 71.
First lines: "Life and Holiness is a book of essays for the laity on progress and depth in the Christian life. In"... Citation: Cross and Crown 15 (December 1963): 492-493,498.
First lines: "Perfection can be a frightening word; a word that very many Christians shut their eyes to. Yet it"... Citation: Clergy Review 49 (April 1964): 262-263.
First lines: "Thomas Merton burst upon the American literary scene in 1948 with his best-selling Seven Storey"... Citation: Christianity and Literature 34.3 (Spring 1983): 73-75. Dewey Weiss Kramer.
First lines: "This voluminous collection reveals Merton's considerable talent as a versatile and very competent"... Citation: Library Journal 106 (15 December 1981): 2395. Carolyn M. Craft.
First lines: "I didn't know where to begin delving into this generous compendium but thought the essay "Poetry,"... Citation: Contact 2 (February 1987): 42-43. Kirby Congdon.
First lines: "'There was in Milton a radical tension between his own psychology, his heart, his character as"... Citation: Tablet [London] 236 (1 May 1982): 431-432. John Cumming.
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Reviews of The Living Bread.
First lines: "*Defined as "a meditation on the sacred mystery of the Eucharist" this book"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin (1 February 1956).
First lines: "When Jesus stood in the crowd at Capharnaum of Galilee and made the astounding statement "I am the"... Citation: News San Francisco California. M.M.
First lines: "In good time for Lenten spiritual reading comes Thomas Merton's newest book, 'The Living Bread'"... Citation: Catholic Standard & Times Philadelphia PA. (2 March 1956). D. Bernard Theall, OSB.
First lines: "Not everyone who read the "Seven Storey Mountain" has had the hardihood to study the books which"... Citation: Herald Boston, MA (11 March 1956). Francis J. Lally.
First lines: "The latest of the impressively accumulating works of Thomas Merton is a brief, profound and"... Citation: New York Times (11 March 1956). Richard Sullivan.
First lines: "A mid-Lenten book, The Living Bread by Thomas Merton brings to the fore the joyous nature of the"... Citation: Democrat Herald (31 March 1956).
First lines: "This is an eloquent meditation on the Eucharist, written at the suggestion and request of members of"... Citation: Episcopal Church News (1 April 1956).
First lines: "Christianity is Christ. It is through the Eucharist that we become fully Christians, for it is in"... Citation: Commonweal 64 (6 July 1956): 354. J.N. Moody.
First lines: "In his latest book on the subject of the Eucharist, Father Merton is appalled at the degradation of"... Citation: News Charleston SC (2 September 1956). Doris Meadowcroft.
First lines: "'Another book from the fertile pen of Thomas Merton, and this time on a subject which for many has"... Citation: Book Rev Digest (August 1956). Contains excerpts of reviews by Edith Donovan, J.A. O'Brien, R.P. Breaden, Richard Sullivan, and Ril.
First lines: "This book was written at the request of a group of diocesan priests who have banded together for the"... Citation: Worship 30 (July-August 1956): 489. Kilian McDonnell OSB.
First lines: "Fr. Merton's new book is an explanation, as concise as may be of the Mass viewed in its threefold"... Citation: Month [London] 17 (January 1957): 44-45.
First lines: "Despite the wide acceptance of his books, Thomas Merton is not yet the poor man's St. John of the"... Citation: Best Sellers 15 (15 March 1956): 386-387.
First lines: "A series of profound meditations on the Eucharist as sacarafice and sacrament. The mystery of "God"... Citation: America 101 (25 April 1959): 256.
First lines: "I envy the "luminous self-possession" of Thomas Merton. It is a very evident"... Citation: The Furrow 31.2 (February 1980): 133-34.
First lines: "Through the collaboration of Merton's long-time"... Citation: Publishers Weekly (April 16, 1979).
First lines: "Trois fois sept textes de Merton repris a des revues"... Citation: Collectanea Cisterciensia (1979).
Reviews of A Man in the Divided Sea.
First lines: "When a man of some mental stature enters the Church, human curiosity sometimes moves toward specula"... Citation: Carroll Quarterly 1 (Spring 1948): 4-13. Frank J. Wiess.
First lines: "When the "Thirty Poems" of Thomas Merton, the young Trappist monk, were published last year, "the pr"... Citation: Saturday Review of Literature 29 (26 October 1946): 36. John Frederick Nims.
First lines: "Thomas Merton is a Trappist monk whose first book of poetry was devotional. The title, "A Man in the"... Citation: NY Post (9 December 1948).
First lines: "Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, has brought together in "A Man in the Divided Sea" (New Directions." Citation: New York Sun (3 December 1946).
First lines: "A medieval or monastic historian could better evaluate Merton's general"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 55.2 (2020): 231-234.
First lines: "Those of us who had the honor and privilege of being students and novices of Thomas"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 44.3 (Fall 2019): 23-24.
First lines: "This volume is part of a series published by Fons Vitae, which assembles"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 39.3 (2004): 354-355.
First lines: "Thomas Merton died in 1968, and since that time a steady stream of"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 56.2 (2021): 252-254.
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