Thomas Merton: 76 books

Book cover of The Intimate Merton

The Intimate Merton

His Life from His Journals

by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

In this diary-like memoir, composed of his most poignant and insightful journal entries, The Intimate Merton lays bare the steep ways of Thomas Merton's spiritual path. Culled from the seven volumes of his personal journals, this twenty nine year chronicle deepens and extends the story Thomas Merton...
Book cover of Turning Toward the World

Turning Toward the World

The Pivotal Years; The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4: 1960-1963

by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

"Inexorably life moves on towards crisis and mystery. Everyone must struggle to adjust himself to this, to face the situation for 'now is the judgment of the world.' In a way, each one judges himself merely by what he does. Does, not says. Yet let us not completely dismiss words. They do have...
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A Year with Thomas Merton

Daily Meditations from His Journals

by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

A 365 daily with inspirational and provocative selections from the journals of Thomas Merton combined with drawings and photographs by Merton. This volume of daily inspiration from Thomas Merton draws from Merton's journals and papers to present, each day, a seasonally appropriate and thought-provoking...
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Run to the Mountain

The Story of a VocationThe Journal of Thomas Merton, Volume 1: 1939-1941

by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the...
Book cover of Monastic Observances

Monastic Observances

Initiation into the Monastic Tradition

by Thomas Merton OCSO
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

In this set of novitiate conferences from the late 1950s, Thomas Merton provides a vivid and detailed introduction to the traditional pattern and practices of the monastic day during the period immediately preceding the momentous changes that would be introduced in the wake of the Second Vatican Council....
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In the Valley of Wormwood

Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age

by Thomas Merton OCSO
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

Shortly after entering the monastic life in December 1941, a relatively unknown Trappist monk called Frater Louis-who would later be known to the world by his given name, Thomas Merton-began to pen biographical sketches of early Cistercian blessed and saints. These were initially collected, printed,...
Book cover of From the Monastery to the World

From the Monastery to the World

The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal

by Thomas Merton, Ernesto Cardenal
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal were both poets and priests, wholly committed to a life of spiritual contemplation which was never far from the gritty work that lead them to risk life and reputation in order to raise worldwide consciousness concerning issues of social justice and the abuse of human...
Book cover of My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel
by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1975

**Of the full-length prose works that Thomas Merton wrote before he entered the Cistercian Order in 1941, only My Argument with the Gestapo has survived––perhaps in part because it was a book that Merton never ceased wanting to see in print. ** Although it first appeared after his death...
Book cover of Choosing To Love The World
by Thomas Merton,Jonathan Montaldo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008

Amid the noise and distractions of everyday life is it really possible to choose to love the world? In these times of great uncertainty and anxiety, how can we find God? Thomas Merton felt the urgency of these questions more than fifty years ago, and his reflections upon them are more relevant than...
Book cover of The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
by Thomas Merton, Amiya Chakravarty
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1975

"This is quintessential Merton."—The Catholic Review. "The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground—I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the...
Book cover of In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems
by Thomas Merton, Lynn R. Szabo
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2005

A new, broad, comprehensive view of the innovative poetry of the late, great Trappist monk and religious philosopher Thomas Merton. Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social criticthe late Thomas Merton was all these things. Until now, no selection from his great body of poetry...
Book cover of Witness to Freedom

Witness to Freedom

The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis

by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1995

Witness to Freedom is the fifth and final volume in the extraordinary correspondence of "one of the most original and challenging minds of the mid-twentieth century" (John Tracy Ellis, The New York Times Book Review). Dramatic and revealing, these letters deal with periods of serious crisis...
Book cover of When the Trees Say Nothing

When the Trees Say Nothing

Writings on Nature

by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003

First published in 2003 and now available in paperback to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Thomas Merton's birth, When the Trees Say Nothing has sold more than 60,000 copies and continually inspires readers with its unique collection of Merton's luminous writings on nature, arranged for...
Book cover of Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

Early Essays, 1947-1952

by Jonathan Montaldo, Thomas Merton OCSO
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

This volume gathers together twelve essays that Thomas Merton wrote for various journals between 1947 and 1952, the years that saw the publication of his best-selling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, his ordination to the priesthood, and his initial appointment as spiritual and intellectual...
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