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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.53
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Manufacturer: Shambhala
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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: Shambhala
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242
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Publication Date: 2002-10-08
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Thomas Merton is often considered the most prominent Christian contemplative of the twentieth century, but he was also a political activist, social visionary, and literary figure whose writings combine the candor of Thoreau and the moral vision of Gandhi. Here is a remarkably accessible introduction to his work: a collection of a short, vivid excerpts arranged in four parts so as to parallel the journey of a seeking soul in the modern world. "Real and False Selves" distinguishes between our real selves, a deep religious mystery known entirely only to God, and the identities we take on in order to function in society. "The World We Live In" provides a spiritual context to modern life, moving from a stark rejection of its empty promises to a deep compassion for its tragic limitations. "Antidotes to Illusion" reflects on contemplative practices that can serve as the allies of our "real selves" in the battle against illusion: silence, solitude, meditation, prayer, charity, and faith. "Love in Action" explores the role of the contemplative in the modern age and the challenges and pitfalls of living a life of active love. Merton's startling critique of a society driven by technology and rampant acquisition, the politics of "good versus evil," and the self-deluding complacency of the spiritual "lifestyle" demonstrate beyond doubt that his writings are as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.13
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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: 811.54
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Publication Date: 2005-03-21
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Reading Level: 25253
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Description: 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 critic—the late Thomas Merton was all these things. Until now, no selection from his great body of poetry has afforded a comprehensive view of his varied and largely innovative work. In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton is not only double the size of Merton's earlier Selected Poems (1967), it also arranges his poetry thematically and chronologically, so that readers can follow the poet's multifarious interrelated lines of thought as well as his poetic development over the decades, from his college days in the 1930s to his untimely accidental death in Bangkok in 1968 during his personal Eastern pilgrimage. The selections are grouped under eight thematic headings—"Geography's Landscapes," "Poems from the Monastery," "Poems of the Sacred," "Songs of Contemplation," "History's Voices: Past and Present," "Engaging the World," "On Being Human," "Merton and Other Languages."
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.62
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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
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.12502
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Publication Date: 2001-03-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: If you like your saints packaged without the messiness of an actual error-filled life, this book is not for you. If, however, you want a glimpse inside the mind and spirit of a splendid writer and thinker who tried live his life as honestly as he could as a journey into God, then this is a grace-filled beauty. Subtitled "His Life from His Journals," these selections--dating from 1939 (before he entered the monastery) to 1968 (within days of his death)--remind us how much of Merton's life unfolded precisely in and through his own writing--how he made himself through his writing. As he says, "it seems to me that writing, far from being an obstacle to spiritual perfection in my own life, has become one of the conditions on which my perfection will depend." Merton contends that writing--honest writing--is his way to move more and more deeply into the truth. In these very honest pages, covering everything from his meeting with the Dalai Lama to his experience of falling in love (25 years after entering the monastery), Truth unfolds itself through the act of writing. These pages are a thread into the center of that labyrinth, which is where he meets his God. Now we're invited along for the ride. --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $13.99
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ludwik Fleck
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 507.2
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Publication Date: 1981-08-15
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Reading Level: 222
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Description: Originally published in German in 1935, this monograph anticipated solutions to problems of scientific progress, the truth of scientific fact and the role of error in science now associated with the work of Thomas Kuhn and others. Arguing that every scientific concept and theory—including his own—is culturally conditioned, Fleck was appreciably ahead of his time. And as Kuhn observes in his foreword, "Though much has occurred since its publication, it remains a brilliant and largely unexploited resource."
"To many scientists just as to many historians and philosophers of science facts are things that simply are the case: they are discovered through properly passive observation of natural reality. To such views Fleck replies that facts are invented, not discovered. Moreover, the appearance of scientific facts as discovered things is itself a social construction, a made thing. A work of transparent brilliance, one of the most significant contributions toward a thoroughly sociological account of scientific knowledge."—Steven Shapin, Science
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.94
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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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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2002-11-04
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: Merton defines Christian mysticism, especially as expressed by the Spanish Carmelite St. John of the Cross, and he offers the contemplative experience as an answer to the irreligion and barbarism of our times. “For those...curious about mysticism...this is an excellent book” (Catholic World).
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $16.11
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Manufacturer: Fons Vitae
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul M Pearson::James A. Wiseman::Roger Lipsey
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Publisher: Fons Vitae
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294
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Publication Date: 2007-04-01
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Reading Level: 271
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Description: Divided into three sections, this insightful volume of essays by numerous scholars focuses on Thomas Merton’s interest in and transformation through Buddhism. In addition to analysis of how Merton's studies of Buddhism affected his work in the arts, the study also offers information about his Asian journey as well as a complete bibliography of secondary materials. Contributors include Judith Simmer-Brown, Roger J. Corless, Rubin L.F. Habito, John P. Keenan, Roger Lipsey, Paul M. Pearson, and James Wiseman, OSB.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.71
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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
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.12502
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Publication Date: 1999-07-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: The Other Side of the Mountain is the seventh and final volume of Thomas Merton's journals, covering the last two years of his life. In this book, Merton finally makes peace with his ambivalent relationship to the Church: his civil rights and anti-nuclear work, his interest in Eastern spirituality, and his love for Catholic orthodoxy coalesce into a mature voice that avoids the frosty pieties to which he was often partial in his younger years. This volume takes its title from an entry made during his final travels in India and the Far East. In this entry, he relates a dream about gazing at the mountain Kanchenjunga: I heard a voice saying--or got the clear idea of: "There is another side to the mountain." ... There is another side of Kanchenjunga and of every mountain--the side that has never been photographed and turned into postcards. That is the only side worth seeing. The next month, Merton died from accidental electrocution in a hotel room in Bangkok. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $11.01
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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: 818.5403
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Publication Date: 1966-06
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Reading Level: 1
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Description: This small collection of Merton's essays presents the Trappist monk at his most bracing. Among other things, it sheds great light on that phenomenon we call the 1960s, which is when this book was first published. Even while writing about topics as diverse as Adolf Eichmann, Flannery O'Conner, and Prometheus, the essays engage the complicated history of those days head on, even while they explore the underlying spiritual issues. Above all, the essays celebrate the vigorous energy of life itself, uncontrolled, spontaneous, and natural--what Merton here calls the festival of rain: "all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody, drenching the thick mulch of dead leaves, soaking the trees." Idiosyncratic, full of humor and poetic energy, these raids, as Merton himself says, "are not so much concerned with ethical principles and traditional answers ... but in difficult insights at a moment of human crisis." --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $6.99
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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
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242.802
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Publication Date: 2004-02
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Though best known for his spiritual writings, Thomas Merton also made drawings, whose Eastern-style brushwork have a meditative power rivaling that of his finest prayers. In Dialogues with Silence, these (mostly unpublished) drawings--of human figures, churches, the crucifixion, and abstract forms--are paired on pages with the texts of his well-known prayers. Editor Jonathan Montaldo's introduction to this volume asserts that Merton, the author of classics including The Seven Storey Mountain, became a: witness for his generation of the way out of self-defeating individualism by tracking anew the boundaries of that ancient other country, whose citizens recognize a hidden ground of unity and love among all living things. He might have added that, for Merton, one direct escape from individualism was the act of loving other individuals, an aspect of Merton's character that shines clearly in the many portraits here. Notably, the most arresting of these images is a face without features. It hovers next to a prayer that begins, "O God, my God, why am I so mute?" --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.90
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Manufacturer: Orbis
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton::Patricia A. Burton
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Publisher: Orbis
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.873
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Publication Date: 2004-10
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Reading Level: 165
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