On Thomas Merton

An introduction to the spiritual legacy of Thomas Merton Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk and one of the most influential spiritual figures of the...

Reducere. The New Man shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity. What must we do to recover pos...

Reducere. The published writings of the Trappist monk Thomas Merton were always censored from two sources during his lifetime. First, by Merton himself, as h...

Reducere. Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life...

Reducere. Reflecting on the inspirational life and writings of Thomas Merton, stories from the Gospels, as well as the lives of other holy men and women (amo...

Reducere. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the foremost spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century. Though he lived a mostly solitary existence as a Trap...

Reducere. Cassian and the Fathers is the initial volume in the series of Novitiate Conferences of Thomas Merton, the classes he presented to young men beginn...

Adolescence can be best summarized as a time of authenticity, passion, and advocacy. As adolescents start maturing, on a life journey that leads th...

Reducere. The fourth volume of Thomas Merton's complete journals, one of his final literary legacies, springs from three hundred handwritten pages that captu...

Reducere. Among the numerous sets of conferences that Thomas Merton presented during his decade (1955-1965) as novice master at the Cistercian Abbey of Geths...

Reducere. Merton and Hinduism is the first book to thoroughly and definitively trace the lasting influence of Yoga and Hindu traditions on the life and writi...

Reducere. The hermits of Screte who turned their backs on a corrupt society remarkably like our own had much in common with the Zen masters of China and Japa...

Reducere. Merton presents one of the most significant encyclical letters of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, together with an introduction to the life and teachin...

Reducere. DescriptionHermit-monk, spiritual seeker, social activist, mystic, writer, and artist--Thomas Merton was all of these during his life. As the autho...

Reducere. Reflections for each day of Advent and the Christmas season begin with a scriptural quotation and continue with a thought from the writings of Thom...

Reducere. "The real hope, then, is not in something we think we can do, but in God who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see. If we ca...

Reducere. Thomas Merton's thought-provoking book is a series of essays about various Amerindian cultures. Among other topics, it touches on such matters as t...

Reducere. A posthumously published collection of Merton's essays and meditations centering on the need for love in learning to live. "Love is the revelation ...

Reducere. DescriptionRecounts the interaction between these four theologians and ecclesiastical authorities and describes the effects of disciplinary actions...

The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of Merton's life - the civil rights and peace movements ...

Reducere. The spiritual and psychological insights of these essays were nurtured in a monastic milieu, but their issues are universally human. Thomas Merton ...

Reducere. "The real hope, then, is not in something we think we can do, but in God who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see. If we ca...

Reducere. Begin your day with a meaningful, meditative spiritual practice.In Seeds of Devotion, Roger Butts delivers evocative and lyrical prose while sharin...

Reducere. The sixties were a time of restlessness, inner turmoil, and exuberance for Merton during which he closely followed the careening development of pol...

Reducere. "What would Jesus do?" That's the primary question Thomas a Kempis answers in his universally acclaimed work, The Imitation of Christ. In 114 short...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh were and are two of the foremost spiritual writers of their times. They met only once--at Gethsemani A...

Reducere. In this series of deeply meditative retreat conferences, Christopher Pramuk leads the reader through a sustained meditation on Wisdom-Sophia, the f...

Reducere. Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imitation of Christ. This meditation on the spiritual...

Reducere. In these brief, challenging pieces, Father Merton does not offer consolation or easy remedies. He looks candidly and without illusions at the world...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hugh TurleyAuthor: David MartinSeldom can one predict that a book will have an effect on history, but this is such a work. ...

Reducere. In his third Heroes volume, Brennan Hill profiles eight improbable candidates for the great things they did: - Thomas Merton, at first glance, a pa...

Reducere. One of the best-loved spiritual writers of our time--an author ranked with C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton--Henry J.M. Nowuen, takes a moving, persona...

Reducere. Illuminates the history and development of Christian thought by offering selections from the writings of 55 great Christian theologians. The volume...

Reducere. Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was Professor of the History and Sociology of Institutions at the University of Bordeaux. A sociologist, historian, and P...

Reducere. With insightful reflections, Fr. Greg Friedman draws on his love of the saints to offer daily inspiration during this season of repentance, forgive...

Reducere. "On the long road it's good to have Nouwen and his divining rod. Deftly he bends toward the drop of spiritual wisdom caked in the most ordinary thi...

Reducere. Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1896-1985), a Russian-born aristocrat who has recently been proposed for canonization, emigrated to North America, dedi...

Reducere. "In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him...

Reducere. Teachings from this fourteenth-century mystic provide spiritual direction and call for you to open yourself, body and soul, to divine love.Many peo...

Reducere. After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br. Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how t...

Reducere. Between World War II and Vatican II, as Italy struggled to rebuild after decades of Mussolini's fascism, an eleventh-century order of contemplative...

Reducere. "On the long road it's good to have Nouwen and his divining rod. Deftly he bends toward the drop of spiritual wisdom caked in the most ordinary thi...

Reducere. Providence is Quinn's fascinating memoir of his life-long spiritual voyage. His journey takes him from a childhood dream in Omaha setting him on a ...

If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.T. Suzuki. The twenty-seven year-old Jap...

Reducere. IN THE LATE 1950's, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, better known as 'Reb Zalman, ' penned what was perhaps the first book on Jewish meditation and ...

Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark. Dante's Inferno begins with imagery of the wilderness marked by darkness...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A smart, wise, often side-splittingly funny master class in seeking God. Any spiritual seeker--from atheist to profession...

Reducere. How it happened (A Different Kind of Twelve Steps): 1. Got an ukulele that will stay in tune ($50+). 2. Got one of those electronic tuners (3. Lear...

Reducere. You've done what you can: you've seen your doctor, made an appointment with a therapist, picked up the prescription for the antidepressant and swal...