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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $8.97
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Manufacturer: Modern Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: St. Augustine
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Publisher: Modern Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 239.3
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Publication Date: 1994-02-01
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Reading Level: 912
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Description: Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for Roman culture. After the sack of Rome, Augustine wrote this book to anatomize the corruption of Romans' pursuit of earthly pleasures: "grasping for praise, open-handed with their money; honest in the pursuit of wealth, they wanted to hoard glory." Augustine contrasts his condemnation of Rome with an exaltation of Christian culture. The glory that Rome failed to attain will only be realized by citizens of the City of God, the Heavenly Jerusalem foreseen in Revelation. Because City of God was written for men of classical learning--custodians of the culture Augustine sought to condemn--it is thick with Ciceronian circumlocutions, and makes many stark contrasts between "Your Virgil" and "Our Scriptures." Even if Augustine's prose strikes modern ears as a bit bombastic, and if his polarized Christian/pagan world is more binary than the one we live in today, his arguments against utopianism and his defense of the richness of Christian culture remain useful and strong. City of God is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of a book." --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $4.14
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Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242
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Publication Date: 1970-06
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Reading Level: 1
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Description: The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit. The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East.
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 Japan, and Father Merton made his selection from them with an eye to the kind of impact produced by the Zen mondo.
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Price: $22.50
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Sale: $13.14
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Manufacturer: Morning Light Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Morning Light Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 2006-07-17
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Reading Level: 350
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Description: For over three decades, those for whom religion is a path of discovery and questioning have found insight in the pages of Parabola. This thoughtful anthology collects the magazine’s best writings on Christianity, featuring articles from Thomas Merton, Elaine Pagels, Philip Zaleski, Thomas Keating, and 20 other authors who vividly explore what it means to be a Christian. The collection combines poetry and folklore with incisive interviews and cogent essays on topics such as the search for self, attention and remembrance, transformational knowledge, and worldly and divine works. A lavish, full-color, 16-page set of plates brilliantly conveys the rich variety within the tradition. From full works of great intricacy to passages of pure insight, The Inner Journey: Views from the Christian Tradition spans the tradition’s greatest trends. For readers looking for an introduction to Christianity or those seeking to expand their knowledge of it, the journey in this book inspires and enlightens.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.04
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Manufacturer: Sounds True, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242
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Publication Date: 2008-03-01
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Reading Level: 191
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Description: Thomas Merton remains one of America's most beloved Christian mystics of the 20th century, gathering legions of admirers every day. Choosing to Love the World presents an essential collection of thoughts and meditations culled from his most inspiring books and letters, offering Merton's radiant wisdom to anyone searching for true meaning in today's times. Choosing to Love the World encourages and enlightens us in our quest to be compassionate, fully alive human beings. Readers will turn to any page to embrace Merton's most powerful insights, infinitely rich in their simplicity yet relevant to 21st century life. Sharing themes that include "The Inner Ground of Love," "Living in Wisdom," "Dialoguing with Silence," and more, Merton teaches that contemplation provides the fundamental context for seeking God's presence. "Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living," writes Merton. Choosing to Love the World gives readers an accessible introduction to this beloved writer's work, and a compendium of beautiful messages to lead us in the journey to become our highest selves. Selected and edited by Jonathan Montaldo of the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.52
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Manufacturer: Image
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Image
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
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Publication Date: 1968-02-09
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: A series of monastic notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections considers such issues as the ""death of God,"" politics, modern life and values, and racial strife. Reissue.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.71
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Manufacturer: Shambhala
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Shambhala
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Edition: Gift edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.009015
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Publication Date: 2004-11-16
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: In the fourth century, the wildernesses of Egypt and Palestine were inhabited by a strange breed of spiritual nonconformists: the first Christian hermits. Thomas Merton's affection for these "Desert Fathers" shines in this much-loved treasury of their acts and words of wisdom. His free translation from the Latin source Verba Senorium illuminates their radical lives with insight and humor and sets them in close relation to Zen recluses, Hindu renunciants, and all those who have ever fled conventional life in search of higher wisdom.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.11
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton::William H. Shannon
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.34
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Publication Date: 2004-06-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Thomas Merton's Fullest Exploration of Contemplation -- Western and Eastern
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Price: $6.95
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Sale: $4.03
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Manufacturer: Liturgical Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 220
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Publication Date: 2000-08
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: This book is to consider some of the special ques-tions and problems which surround the Bible itself--a book for which all blurbs are impossible.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $9.04
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Harvest Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 100
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Publication Date: 2002-11-18
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $2.98
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Manufacturer: Harcourt
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Harcourt
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.2
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Publication Date: 1985-04
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: A posthumously published collection of Mertons essays and meditations centering on the need for love in learning to live. Love is the revelation of our deepest personal meaning, value, and identity. Edited by Naomi Burton Stone and Brother Patrick Hart.
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