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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.86
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer::John Donne::Meister Eckhart::T.S. Eliot::Gerard Manley Hopkins::C. S. Lewis::Thomas Merton::Archbishop Romero::Henri J.M. Nouwen::Philip Yancey
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2004-09-30
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Reading Level: 330
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $6.98
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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: Anv
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.12502
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Publication Date: 1999-10-04
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: In 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into sticky-sweet abstractions, Merton's autobiographical reflections are mostly wise, humble, and concrete. The best reason to read The Seven Storey Mountain, however, may be the one Merton provided in his introduction to its Japanese translation: "I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both." --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $8.99
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Manufacturer: New Directions
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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
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.34
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Publication Date: 2007-11-27
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: "It can become almost a magic word," Thomas Merton says of contemplation; "or if not magic, then inspirational, which is almost as bad." With these words, Merton takes us through the reality of contemplation, which is, the author says, "life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder." Above all, contemplation is "awareness of the reality" of the Source, "with a certitude that goes beyond reason and beyond simple faith." As these definitions should suggest, in this 20th-century classic on the contemplative life, as in the best of Merton's work, this Trappist monk wonderfully combines a disciplined and deeply learned intellect with the lyrical passion of the poet. It is this rare combination that makes this book not only informative but also moving. Covering a diverse range of subjects ("Faith," "The Night of the Senses," "Renunciation"), it moves the reader through certain traditional "phases" of contemplation, and gives an idea of what to expect in this spiritual process (including despair and darkness). The book describes, but it also enacts. In its own prose it invites the reader to "cast our awful solemnity to the winds and join in the general dance." --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $5.24
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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: 291
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Publication Date: 1986-06
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: Without really raising his voice once the author proceeds to the heart of each of these matters and speaks home truths for which all sorts of people--priests and religious and laity--will be grateful.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.22
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Manufacturer: Redemptorist Pastoral Publication
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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: Redemptorist Pastoral Publication
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242.33
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Publication Date: 2002-08
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Reading Level: 96
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $7.25
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242
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Publication Date: 1999-11-29
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: The renowned Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote Thoughts in Solitude in 1953 and 1954, when his superiors allowed him extended periods of seclusion and meditation. This elegant gift book, with clean, spare type and graphics, does justice to a 20th-classic (this is its 25th printing). What has made this book such an enduring and popular work is that it recognizes how important solitude is to our morality, integrity, and ability to love. One does not have to be a monk to find solitude, notes Merton; solitude can be found in the act of contemplation and silent reflection in everyday life. Also, this is not a pious book that assumes that a relationship with the divine can be obtained only by denying our humanity and striving for saintliness. Instead, Merton asserts that connection with God can most easily be made through "respect for temperament, character, and emotion and for everything that makes us human." --Gail Hudson
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Price: $4.95
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Sale: $1.77
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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: 291
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Publication Date: 1956-06
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Reading Level: 48
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Description: Merton shows us how to draw out the richness of worship from the psalter and to use it to achieve "the peace that comes from submission to God's will and from perfect confidence in him".......Catholic Review Service.
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Price: $10.95
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Sale: $5.25
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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: 248.34
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Publication Date: 1971-02-05
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: This little gem of a book, newly issued with a foreword from the great Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh (who knew Merton in the 1960s) beautifully distills Merton's own reading and long experience with contemplation. Written close to the end of Merton's life, this book is not so much a "how to" guide as it is a kind of contemplation of contemplation. Immersed in the "negative theology" of St. John of the Cross and others--and influenced by his deep reading in Zen--Merton here stresses that in meditation "we should not look for a 'method' or 'system,' but cultivate an 'attitude,' an 'outlook': faith, openness, attention, reverence, expectation, supplication, trust, joy." God is found in the desert of surrender: this means giving up any expectation for a particular message and "waiting on the Word of God in silence," knowing that any answer will be "his silence itself suddenly, inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God." --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $8.29
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Manufacturer: New Seeds
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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 Seeds
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808.02
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Publication Date: 2007-02-13
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: When Thomas Merton entered a Trappist monastery in December 1941, he turned his back on secular life—including a very promising literary career. He sent his journals, a novel-in-progess, and copies of all his poems to his mentor, Columbia professor Mark Van Doren, for safe keeping, fully expecting to write little, if anything, ever again. It was a relatively short-lived resolution, for Merton almost immediately found himself being assigned writing tasks by his Abbot—one of which was the autobiographical essay that blossomed into his international best-seller The Seven Storey Mountain. That book made him famous overnight, and for a time he struggled with the notion that the vocation of the monk and the vocation of the writer were incompatible. Monasticism called for complete surrender to the absolute, whereas writing demanded a tactical withdrawal from experience in order to record it. He eventually came to accept his dual vocation as two sides of the same spiritual coin and used it as a source of creative tension the rest of his life. Merton’s thoughts on writing have never been compiled into a single volume until now. Robert Inchausti has mined the vast Merton literature to discover what he had to say on a whole spectrum of literary topics, including writing as a spiritual calling, the role of the Christian writer in a secular society, the joys and mysteries of poetry, and evaluations of his own literary work. Also included are fascinating glimpses of his take on a range of other writers, including Henry David Thoreau, Flannery O’Connor, Dylan Thomas, Albert Camus, James Joyce, and even Henry Miller, along with many others.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $4.95
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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: 294.3927
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Publication Date: 1968-06
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: "Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite--one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing,' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey." This gets at the humor, paradox, and joy that one feels in Merton's discoveries of Zen during the last years of his life, a joy very much present in this collection of essays. Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Zen, especially through his dialogue with the great Zen teacher D.T. Suzuki (included as part 2 of this volume), the book makes an excellent introduction to a comparative study of these two traditions, as well as giving the reader a strong taste of the mature Merton. Never does one feel him losing his own faith in these pages; rather one feels that faith getting deeply clarified and affirmed. Just as the body of "Zen" cannot be found by the scavengers, so too, Merton suggests, with the eternal truth of Christ. "It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it...." --Doug Thorpe
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