Bild på författaren.

Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

Författare till The Seven Storey Mountain

366+ verk 32,185 medlemmar 322 recensioner 85 favoritmärkta

Om författaren

Born in France, Thomas Merton was the son of an American artist and poet and her New Zealander husband, a painter. Merton lost both parents before he had finished high school, and his younger brother was killed in World War II. Something of the ephemeral character of human endeavor marked all his visa mer works, deepening the pathos of his writings and drawing him close to Eastern, especially Buddhist, forms of monasticism. After an initial education in the United States, France, and England, he completed his undergraduate degree at Columbia University. His parents, nominally friends, had given him little religious guidance, and in 1938, he converted to Roman Catholicism. The following year he received an M.A. from Columbia University and in 1941, he entered Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, where he remained until a short time before his death. His working life was spent as a Trappist monk. At Gethsemani, he wrote his famous autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (1948); there he labored and prayed through the days and years of a constant regimen that began with daily prayer at 2:00 a.m. As his contemplative life developed, he still maintained contact with the outside world, his many books and articles increasing steadily as the years went by. Reading them, it is hard to think of him as only a "guilty bystander," to use the title of one of his many collections of essays. He was vehement in his opposition to the Vietnam War, to the nuclear arms race, to racial oppression. Having received permission to leave his monastery, he went on a journey to confer with mystics of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. He was accidentally electrocuted in a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 10, 1968. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Thomas Merton in Pictures From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center. Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.

Serier

Verk av Thomas Merton

The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) 4,624 exemplar
New Seeds of Contemplation (1961) 2,198 exemplar
No Man Is an Island (1955) 2,157 exemplar
Contemplative Prayer (1969) 1,401 exemplar
Thoughts In Solitude (1958) 1,176 exemplar
The Way of Chuang Tzu (1969) — Författare — 1,099 exemplar
Zen and the Birds of Appetite (1968) 740 exemplar
Liv och helighet (1963) 622 exemplar
Mystics and Zen Masters (1967) 548 exemplar
The Ascent to Truth (1951) 491 exemplar
Seeds of Contemplation (1949) 444 exemplar
The Waters Of Siloe (1777) — Författare — 414 exemplar
Bröd i ödemarken (1953) 408 exemplar
Praying the Psalms (1956) 390 exemplar
Den nya människan (1961) — Författare — 390 exemplar
A Book of Hours (2007) 370 exemplar
Love and Living (1979) 346 exemplar
The Silent Life (1957) 313 exemplar
Opening the Bible (1970) — Författare — 300 exemplar
Disputed Questions (1960) 299 exemplar
The Living Bread (1956) 286 exemplar
Raids on the Unspeakable (1966) 246 exemplar
The Monastic Journey (1977) 232 exemplar
Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master (1992) 165 exemplar
Seasons of celebration (1965) 162 exemplar
What Is Contemplation? (1978) 140 exemplar
Seeds (2002) 135 exemplar
Seeds of Destruction (1964) 126 exemplar
The Nonviolent Alternative (1980) 115 exemplar
Han lever (1657) 103 exemplar
A vow of conversation : journals, 1964-1965 (1988) — Författare — 95 exemplar
Geography of Lograire (1969) 53 exemplar
Thomas Merton on peace (1971) 46 exemplar
Emblems of a Season of Fury (1963) 38 exemplar
A Catch of Anti-Letters (1978) 37 exemplar
The Tears of the Blind Lions (1949) 35 exemplar
Day of a stranger (1981) 33 exemplar
Silence in Heaven: A Book of the Monastic Life (1956) — Författare — 23 exemplar
Cold War Letters (2006) 20 exemplar
The Strange Islands (1957) 19 exemplar
Cistercian life (1974) 18 exemplar
A Man in the Divided Sea (1946) 18 exemplar
REDEEMING THE TIME (1965) 18 exemplar
Figures for an Apocalypse (1947) 17 exemplar
The power and meaning of love (1976) 17 exemplar
Meditations on Liturgy (1976) 15 exemplar
Silence, Joy (2018) 13 exemplar
Vägen till kontemplation (1980) 12 exemplar
La Paix monastique (1957) 12 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Zen (1976) 12 exemplar
Resa i den inre verkligheten (1985) 11 exemplar
Introductions East & West (1981) 10 exemplar
The behavior of Titans (1961) 8 exemplar
Thomas Merton on the Psalms (1977) 7 exemplar
Journal d'asie (1993) 7 exemplar
Gethsemani; a life of praise (1966) 5 exemplar
Szukanie Boga 5 exemplar
Kallad till tystnad (2005) 5 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Prayer (1989) 4 exemplar
Come to the Mountain (1964) 4 exemplar
La contemplazione cristiana (2001) 4 exemplar
La lluvia y el rinoceronte (1962) 3 exemplar
Incursiones en lo indecible (1973) 3 exemplar
Diarios. 1939-1968 (2014) 3 exemplar
Thirty poems (1944) 3 exemplar
Sign of Jonas, The 3 exemplar
Listy (1991) 3 exemplar
The Merton Annual Volume 9 (1997) 3 exemplar
The Zen revival (1967) 3 exemplar
Vida i santedat 3 exemplar
Orar Los Salmos (2005) 2 exemplar
Leggere la Bibbia (2002) 2 exemplar
Null n'est une ile 2 exemplar
Nativity kerygma (1958) 2 exemplar
A Merton Reader (1974) 2 exemplar
The Thomas Merton Studies Center (Volume One) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor2 exemplar
Merton 2 exemplar
Wybór wierszy (1986) 2 exemplar
Un vivere alternativo (1995) 2 exemplar
Humanismo cristiano (2001) 2 exemplar
El Camino monástico (1987) 1 exemplar
Nul n'est une le 1 exemplar
La vida silenciosa 1 exemplar
Created for Love (1993) 1 exemplar
Le Signe de Jonas 1 exemplar
LE PAIN VIVANT. (1957) 1 exemplar
Paz na era pós-cristã (2007) 1 exemplar
La rivoluzione nera (2016) 1 exemplar
O Homem Novo 1 exemplar
Inner and Outer Poverty (1994) 1 exemplar
Silence (1994) 1 exemplar
The Genesee Diary 1 exemplar
O pão vivo 1 exemplar
Il monaco 1 exemplar
The Desert fathers 1 exemplar
Paz Personal Paz Social (1999) 1 exemplar
Zeiten der Stille. (1999) 1 exemplar
Sedmistupňová hora (2002) 1 exemplar
Fenelon Letters (1964) 1 exemplar
KONTEMPLATIV B (1987) 1 exemplar
CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE 1 exemplar
Love 1 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Prayer - 2 (2007) 1 exemplar
Nonviolent Alternative (1980) 1 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Sufism (2014) 1 exemplar
Duh 1 exemplar
Hetkien kirja (2014) 1 exemplar
Essential Writing 1 exemplar
Life and Prophecy 1 exemplar
Life and Truth 1 exemplar
Life and Community 1 exemplar
Life and Work 1 exemplar
Words of Peace 1 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Love (2007) 1 exemplar
Semences de destruction (1965) 1 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Poetry (2017) 1 exemplar
Alone With God 1 exemplar
Pasternak (2019) 1 exemplar
Cargo theology 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

City of God (0426) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor6,152 exemplar
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 829 exemplar
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 757 exemplar
Gandhi on Non-Violence: A Selection From the Writings of Mahatma Gandi (1964) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor336 exemplar
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 324 exemplar
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 162 exemplar
Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 143 exemplar
Saints for Now (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 103 exemplar
Vietnam i brand : ett buddhistiskt alternativ till fred (1967) — Förord, vissa utgåvor79 exemplar
Russian Mystics (1976) — Förord, vissa utgåvor69 exemplar
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
The Prison Meditations of Father Delp (1963) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor61 exemplar
A Hidden Wholeness/The Visual World of Thomas Merton (1977) — Fotograf — 54 exemplar
Counsels of Light and Love (1953) — Inledning — 51 exemplar
Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton (2006) — Illustratör — 43 exemplar
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Merton & Buddhism: (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) (2007) — Fotograf, vissa utgåvor32 exemplar
Elsewhere (Poets in the World) (2014) — Översättare, vissa utgåvor24 exemplar
No more strangers (1965) — Inledning — 20 exemplar
Son of Man: Great Writing About Jesus Christ (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
The Analog Sea Review: Number Two (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Clement of Alexandria Selections from the Protreptikos (1962) — Essay, vissa utgåvor; Översättare, vissa utgåvor12 exemplar
New World Writing: First Mentor Selection (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Merton [1984 film] (2004) — Featured — 10 exemplar
Non-violence and the Christian conscience (1966) — Förord, vissa utgåvor10 exemplar
The Analog Sea Review: Number One (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Parabola: The Search for Meaning, Vol. 29, No. 3: The Seeker (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
The Jaguar and the Moon (1971) — Översättare, vissa utgåvor7 exemplar
Stroker anthology, 1974-1994 (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Mansions of the Spirit (1967) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor7 exemplar
Triquarterly 19 (Fall 1970) For Edward Dahlberg (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
New Directions in Prose and Poetry 33 (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Palabra de Amor: La búsqueda de la sanación integral (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

Taggad

andakt (126) andlighet (2,283) andligt liv (251) antologi (153) apologetik (127) Augustinus (240) biografi (559) buddhism (168) bön (682) Cisterciensorden (129) dagbok (196) essäer (144) facklitteratur (767) filosofi (782) historia (216) katolisism (567) katolsk (544) klassiker (132) Kontemplation (388) kristen (376) kristendom (1,407) kristet liv (153) meditation (359) Meditations (142) memoarer (265) Merton (1,260) Monastisk (747) mystik (325) Patristik (132) poesi (563) religion (2,260) självbiografi (452) ska läsas (893) taoism (159) teologi (1,311) Thomas Merton (939) Trappist (124) Trappistorden (119) tro (111) zen (152)

Allmänna fakta

Medlemmar

Recensioner

Beautiful, insightful little book on the nature of Christian monasticism. Wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up this book on a whim from my local used book store, other than a dim awareness that Merton wasn’t your typical “Christian” writer. What I found was a book that is partially an explanation of the principles that underlie the monk’s way of life, partially a description of how these principles manifest in various monastic orders.

Even as a non Christian, I could still see the universal significance of the ideas Merton writes about. This is probably because Merton is concerned not only with dogma and liturgy, but how true adherence to the principles of Christian faith manifest in the real world, and how our society as it stands has fallen so far from those principles. You know you are dealing with a real one when Merton decries the way the “totalitarians” and “capitalists” have deformed modern man, or how a monk that pretends to mere bourgeois values can never reach true spiritual purity. Merton recognizes that society as it stands is lacking, and is unsustainable in the long term. The monastic life provides not only the conditions for a closer relationship with god, but also a model for the way man can organize his relationship with his environment, his tools, his work, and his fellow human beings. A monk shares in the work of the cloister, never slacking but also always allowing for plenty of time for contemplation and rest. Mutual aid is a requirement of the communal like style in the cloister, but a monk must always respect the solitude and space of another. A monk is encouraged to take up a creative exploit and devote time to its mastery. A monk lives simply and without extraneous things; the possessions he does own, he treats with the care and dignity befitting tools made to do God’s work.

One might see the monastic lifestyle as meaningless asceticism, a wholesale denial of a big part of what it means to be human; Merton would argue (I think convincingly) that the excision of all unnecessary things makes space for the sliver of human existence that truly makes a life significant, a sliver that has all but been buried by the modern world.
… (mer)
 
Flaggad
hdeanfreemanjr | 2 andra recensioner | Jan 29, 2024 |
Two things in Shannon’s note in this edition propelled me to begin this book. First, Merton may have been a product of or perhaps even drawn to the post Reformation, pre Vatican II arrogance of the Church that led it to promote an exclusionary, limiting interpretation of the Gospels. And what attracts and emboldens him to believe and profess his faith through our shared body of the Church? Second, how does the issuance of a human child ever in our faith get deemed something so horrific as to be revealed only in a “tell-all” version of his life, how can it reasonably be labeled a “disaster” for him and the unmarried women?

I’d like to read a forward written perhaps in the pen of the ‘disastrous’ child. A man, especially a religious one, who avoids the privilege of knowing, acknowledging, and supporting his own blood cannot, in my opinion, be trusted to carry the full message of Christ. No child in a classroom, a boardroom, or the theatre of life would or should ever imagine having to introduce themselves as a bastard, a disaster, a secret, or the unwanted product of a so-called aspiring Man of God. Women, mothers certainly do not and cannot hide from such accomplishments, i.e. bringing a life into this world. So I would call his posture in reference to this child a “social abortion” and no less and perhaps more unfortunate that a bona fide abortion. What is it exactly that is so secret, disastrous, or so shameful about a child born as to warrant being rejected by the Franciscan Order or public opinion or him? This escapes me entirely.

I expect to read in the remainder of Merton’s book of someone who is preoccupied with scrubbing his earthly life dry of the pitfalls of everyday humanness. Why bother? There is no sin so original, after all, other than that of Adam and Eve, that anyone should imagine they have invented, a frailty so novel that they can’t be forgiven or make amends. To run from one’s own ‘failures’ so assuredly while pursuing a Christ-like life, then, it seems to me, is a profound disservice to the gift of being human and accessing the grace of God in the first place.

I’ll update my review. If I can finish his missive. Lord, give me strength.
… (mer)
 
Flaggad
NeelieOB | 54 andra recensioner | Jan 20, 2024 |
Can faith and violence exist side by side? Do the faithful indulge in violence? Much more often than not, says Thomas Merchant in this book. Merton says the population of an affluent world is nourished by a steady diet of brutal mythology and hallucinations.
 
Flaggad
PendleHillLibrary | 1 annan recension | Jan 4, 2024 |

Listor

Priser

Du skulle kanske också gilla

Associerade författare

Statistik

Verk
366
Även av
36
Medlemmar
32,185
Popularitet
#604
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
322
ISBN
696
Språk
20
Favoritmärkt
85

Tabeller & diagram