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Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

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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
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Verk av Thomas Merton

The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) 4,528 exemplar
New Seeds of Contemplation (1961) 2,169 exemplar
No Man Is an Island (1955) 2,111 exemplar
Contemplative Prayer (1969) 1,380 exemplar
Thoughts In Solitude (1958) 1,156 exemplar
The Way of Chuang Tzu (1969) 1,074 exemplar
Zen and the Birds of Appetite (1968) 726 exemplar
Liv och helighet (1963) 610 exemplar
Mystics and Zen Masters (1967) 541 exemplar
The Ascent to Truth (1951) 482 exemplar
Seeds of Contemplation (1949) 435 exemplar
The Waters Of Siloe (1777) 402 exemplar
Bröd i ödemarken (1953) 401 exemplar
Den nya människan (1961) 384 exemplar
Praying the Psalms (1956) 377 exemplar
A Book of Hours (2007) 361 exemplar
Love and Living (1979) 340 exemplar
The Silent Life (1957) 306 exemplar
Disputed Questions (1960) 297 exemplar
Opening the Bible (1970) 294 exemplar
The Living Bread (1956) 282 exemplar
Raids on the Unspeakable (1966) 245 exemplar
The Monastic Journey (1977) 230 exemplar
Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master (1992) 159 exemplar
Seasons of celebration (1965) 158 exemplar
What Is Contemplation? (1978) 138 exemplar
Seeds (2002) 134 exemplar
Seeds of Destruction (1964) 123 exemplar
The Nonviolent Alternative (1980) 111 exemplar
Han lever (1657) 102 exemplar
A vow of conversation : journals, 1964-1965 (1988) — Författare — 94 exemplar
Geography of Lograire (1969) 52 exemplar
Thomas Merton on peace (1971) 44 exemplar
Emblems of a Season of Fury (1963) 38 exemplar
A Catch of Anti-Letters (1978) 36 exemplar
The Tears of the Blind Lions (1949) 33 exemplar
Day of a stranger (1981) 32 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
The power and meaning of love (1976) 17 exemplar
Figures for an Apocalypse (1947) 16 exemplar
Meditations on Liturgy (1976) 14 exemplar
Silence, Joy (2018) 12 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
Thomas Merton on the Psalms (1977) 7 exemplar
Journal d'asie (1993) 7 exemplar
The behavior of Titans (1961) 7 exemplar
Szukanie Boga 5 exemplar
Kallad till tystnad (2005) 5 exemplar
Per la pace: aforismi (2008) 5 exemplar
Gethsemani; a life of praise (1966) 5 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Prayer (1989) 4 exemplar
La contemplazione cristiana (2001) 4 exemplar
Come to the Mountain (1964) 4 exemplar
Thirty poems (1944) 3 exemplar
The Merton Annual Volume 9 (1997) 3 exemplar
Vida i santedat 3 exemplar
Sign of Jonas, The 3 exemplar
La lluvia y el rinoceronte (1962) 3 exemplar
Diarios. 1939-1968 (2014) 3 exemplar
Listy (1991) 3 exemplar
The Zen revival (1967) 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
Humanismo cristiano (2001) 2 exemplar
The Thomas Merton Studies Center (Volume One) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor2 exemplar
Merton 2 exemplar
Wybór wierszy (1986) 2 exemplar
A Merton Reader (1974) 2 exemplar
La vida silenciosa 1 exemplar
El Camino monástico (1987) 1 exemplar
Created for Love (1993) 1 exemplar
Le Signe de Jonas 1 exemplar
LE PAIN VIVANT. (1957) 1 exemplar
Nul n'est une le 1 exemplar
Paz na era pós-cristã (2007) 1 exemplar
O Homem Novo 1 exemplar
La rivoluzione nera (2016) 1 exemplar
Silence (1994) 1 exemplar
Paz Personal Paz Social (1999) 1 exemplar
O pão vivo 1 exemplar
Inner and Outer Poverty (1994) 1 exemplar
Encounter 1 exemplar
El pan vivo 1 exemplar
Zeiten der Stille. (1999) 1 exemplar
The Genesee Diary 1 exemplar
Alone With God 1 exemplar
Fenelon Letters (1964) 1 exemplar
CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE 1 exemplar
Love 1 exemplar
Nonviolent Alternative (1980) 1 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Prayer - 2 (2007) 1 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Sufism (2014) 1 exemplar
Il monaco 1 exemplar
The Desert fathers 1 exemplar
Un vivere alternativo (1995) 1 exemplar
Sedmistupňová hora (2002) 1 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Love (2007) 1 exemplar
Semences de destruction (1965) 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
Hetkien kirja (2014) 1 exemplar
Duh 1 exemplar
KONTEMPLATIV B (1987) 1 exemplar
Cargo theology 1 exemplar
Thomas Merton on Poetry (2017) 1 exemplar
Pasternak (2019) 1 exemplar

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City of God (0426) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor6,018 exemplar
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 818 exemplar
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 740 exemplar
Gandhi on Non-Violence: A Selection From the Writings of Mahatma Gandi (1964) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor329 exemplar
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 319 exemplar
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 160 exemplar
Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 140 exemplar
Saints for Now (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 100 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 utgåvor58 exemplar
A Hidden Wholeness/The Visual World of Thomas Merton (1977) — Fotograf — 53 exemplar
Counsels of Light and Love (1953) — Inledning — 50 exemplar
Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton (2006) — Illustratör — 42 exemplar
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 33 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
Clement of Alexandria Selections from the Protreptikos (1962) — Essay, vissa utgåvor; Översättare, vissa utgåvor12 exemplar
The Analog Sea Review: Number Two (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 12 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

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A second read of one of TM's later books. Also a read after reading more Jesuits philosophy. Became infatuated with TM 35 years ago. His mental and spiritual wanderings are internal and on this re-read sounded like spiritual naval gazing with the Catholic verbial trimmings (a lot of capital letters). But when one sits and prays and thinks without reflecting on actions never taken that is where a well meaning literary monk would end up,
But Catholicism is a large tent. Both TMs and Father James Martin's "God is where You Are" and the Jesuits "God in All things" can abide.… (mer)
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meaning of human existence
 
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from notebooks back to 1958
 
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guide to spiritual progress
 
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Medlemmar
31,560
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Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
313
ISBN
695
Språk
19
Favoritmärkt
85
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207

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