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Adaptation of the monastic life : some personal observations
Address on prayer by Pope Paul VI at his regular weekly general audience - November, 10, 1965 (translated by Thomas Merton)
Address to the Special General Chapter, Sisters of Loretto, August 1967
Advent
Advent mystery, The
Aids to mental prayer
Albert Camus' The plague; introduction and commentary
And so goodbye to cities
And the children of Birmingham
Answer of Minerva, The : pacifism and resistance in Simone Weil
Answers for Hernan Lavin Cerda
Answers on art and freedom
Anthology of Irish poetry
Apologies to an unbeliever
Ascetismo e monachesimo prebenedittino
Atlas watches every evening
Attente dans le silence, L' : le père Marie-Joseph Cassant, O. Cist. S. O., by Etienne Chenevière. Preface.
Auschwitz : a family camp
Baptism in the forest : wisdom and initiation in William Faulkner
Baroque gravure, A (from a 17th century book of piety)
Baroque monasticism
Basic principles of monastic spirituality
Benedictine rule and active presence in the world, by Jean Leclercq. Translated from the Italian by Thomas Merton.
Benedictines, The. Review of The Benedictines; a digest for moderns, by David Knowles, O.S.B.
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
Black revolution, The : letters to a white liberal
Blake and the new theology. Review of The new apocalypse : the radical Christian vision of William Blake, by Thomas J. Altizer.
Blessed are the meek : the roots of Christian non-violence
Buddhism and the modern world
Camus : journals of the Plague years
Camus and the Catholic church
Cargo movements and their implications
Cassian and the Fathers
Cell, The
Chant to be used in processions around a site with furnaces
Christ of the desert
Christian action in world crisis
Christian and the world, The. Conferences, Abbey of Gethsemani, 1966.
Christian ethics and nuclear war
Christian humanism
Christian looks at Zen, A. Introduction to The golden age of Zen, by Jingxiong Wu (John C. H. Wu).
Christian worship and social reform
Christianity and defense in the nuclear age : notes for a conference to an ecumenical group
Christianity and race in the U. S.
Church and the "Godless world", The
Circular Letters to Friends (for mimeographing)
Cistercian fathers and their monastic theology, The. Novitiate, Abbey of Gethsemani, 1963.
Cistercian order from the death of St. Bernard to the reform of Benedict XII (1153-1335), The
Classic Chinese thought
Clement of Alexandria. Selections from the Protreptikos. Translated by Thomas Merton.
Climate of mercy, The; for Albert Schweitzer
Climate of monastic prayer, The
Cold War letters
Commonweal, to the editors of the
Concerning the collection in Bellarmine College Library
Conference on prayer for Conference of Religious of India, Feast of Christ the King, 1968 (Calcutta).
Conjectures of a guilty bystander
Constitutions of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance
Consuetudines, The. Edited with a commentary by Thomas Merton.
Contemplation and ecumenism
Contemplation in a world of action
Contemplative and the atheist, The
Conversatio morum. Expanded from a talk given October 6, 1964, North American Novice Masters' Meeting.
Council and monasticism, The
Creative silence
Cross fighters, The : notes on a race war
Cur Deus homo and other Anselmiana
Curriculum vitae
D. T. Suzuki : the man and his work
Danger signals : points for examination of conscience
Danish non-violent resistance to Hitler
Darío, Rubén, 1867-1916
Day of a stranger
Death of God and the end of history, The
Derniers souvenirs
Devout meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann, A
Dialogue and renewal in the contemplative life
Doctor M. B. Bramachari : a personal tribute
Early legend, The (six fragments of a work in progress)
Easter homily
Ecumenism and monastic renewal
Edifying cables
Eight freedom songs
Elegy for Father Stephen (also titled "Elegy for a Trappist")
Enclosure and silence
Enemy of the state, An. Review of In solitary witness, by Gordon Zahn.
English mystics, The
Epitaph for a public servant (In memoriam - Adolf Eichmann)
Ernesto Cardenal
Evaluation of his own books. 1967.
Events and pseudo-events : letter to a Southern churchman
Examination of conscience and conversatio morum
Exchange of letters on monastic questions, An; by Br. M. Louis, O.C.S.O. (Thomas Merton) and Ronald Roloff, O.S.B.
Faith and violence : Christian teaching and Christian practice
Father Louis' talk to the Novice Masters, 1968
Faulkner and his critics
Feast of freedom : monastic formation according to Adam of Perseigne
Feast of freedom : monastic formation according to Adam of Perseigne
Few questions and fewer answers : extracts from a monastic notebook
Final integration : toward a monastic therapy
First and last thoughts : an author's preface to A Thomas Merton reader
First lesson about man
Five drawings by Thomas Merton
Five important books for Catholic book annual. Reviews.
Flannery O'Connor : a prose elegy
For a renewal of eremitism in the monastic state
Forty-three signatures : an exhibit of drawings
Franciscan eremitism
From pilgrimage to crusade
Gaudium et spes. Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis.
Genesis. Notes.
Gloss on the sin of Ixion
God's will
Grace's house
Great men of former times, The
Guigo the Carthusian. Comment on "Le meditationes del Beato Guigo Certosino," by Maria Elena Cristofolini.
Hagia Sophia
Hesychasm. Review of Hesychasme et prière, by Irénée Hausherr, S. J.
Historical consciousness, The
Homily at the Mass for Father M. Louis (Thomas Merton)
Homily for the funeral Mass of Father Louis Merton, O.C.S.O., December 17, 1968
Homily of Father Louis, O.C.S.O., on the occasion of his concelebrated Mass with Father Dan Walsh at Carmel, Louisville. Pentecost Tuesday, May 16, 1967.
Homily on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, A
Honest to God
Hopeless and felons
Hot summer of 1967, The
House of Intellect, The; by Jacques Barzun. A study sheet and commentary by Thomas Merton.
Human way out, The. Preface.
Humanity of Christ in monastic prayer, The
Identity crisis and monastic vocation
In acceptance of the Pax Medal - 1963
Inspirations of the Holy Ghost and discernment of spirits. Taken from some notes by Fr. Louis Merton on the Holy Spirit.
Introduction to Christian mysticism, An (from the Apostolic Fathers to the Council of Trent)
Introduction to Cistercian theology, An
Introduction to the life of the vows, An
Is Buddhism life-denying? [Appendix to Zen and the birds of appetite]
Is the contemplative life finished? Notes from a taped conference.
Is the world a problem?
Isaac of Stella : an introduction to selections from his Sermons
Ishi : a meditation
Jesuits in China, The : The case of the Chinese rites and the vernacular
Jesus in the Lenten Gospels
Journal of my escape from the Nazis
Kingdom of God today, The; by Otto Karrer. Comment.
Last Mass in the hermitage
Learning to live
Lectio divina
Lectures on Cassian : for Choir Novitiate, 1955-1956 (earlier version of Cassian and the Fathers, Part II)
Legend of Tucker Caliban, The. Review of A different drummer, by William Melvin Kelley.
Letter of St. Anselm on stability, A
Letter to a papal volunteer
Letter to Bishop John J. Wright, Pittsburgh
Letter to Dr. R. H. Prince, McGill University, May 22, 1965
Letter to Leslie Dewart on the Church and revolution
Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra concerning giants, A
Letter to Senator John Sherman Cooper
Letter to the Editor of Jubilee
Letter to the editor, Sewanee Review
Life, works, and doctrine of St. Bernard, The
Liturgical feasts and seasons. Conferences given in the Choir Novitiate, Gethsemani Abbey.
Love and need : is love a package or a message?
Love and solitude
Love winter when the plant says nothing
Machine gun in the fallout shelter, The
Man is a gorilla with a gun : reflections on a best seller. Review of African genesis, by Robert Ardrey.
Man the master
Marcel and Buddha : a metaphysics of enlightenment, by Sally Donnelly. Foreword.
Martha, Mary and Lazarus : Action and Contemplation in Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Martyr for peace and unity, A : Father Max Josef Metzger (1887-1944)
Marxist theory and monastic theoria. Conference delivered at Bangkok, December 10, 1968.
Material for retreat conferences : profession, minor orders, major orders. Given at the Scholasticate, Abbey of Gethsemani, 1951-1955.
Mature conscience, The (in collaboration with John Eudes Bamberger, O.C.S.O.)
Meaning of Malcolm X, The
Meeting at Gethsemani. December 4-7, 1967. [Contemplative religious women, Sr. Elaine Bane, O.S.F. and others]
Merton view of monasticism : seeking God through total love is goal. Extemporaneous talk delivered at Spritiual Summit Conference, Calcutta, India, 22-26 October 1968.
Message aux amis de Gandhi, January 31, 1965
Message of contemplatives to the modern world
Message to poets [from Thomas Merton]
Monachisme en Islam et chretienté, Le; by Jean Leclercq.
Monastic experience and the East-West dialogue : notes for a paper delivered at Calcutta, October 1968
Monastic introduction to sacred scripture, A
Monastic life at Gethsemani
Monastic orientation
Monastic orientation
Monastic peace
Monastic reform : a memorandum
Monastic renewal : problems and prospects (for Ed Rice)
Monastic theology of St. Aelred, The
Monastic vocation and the background of modern secular thought
Monastic vows : a memorandum
Monk in the diaspora, The
Morte d'Urban : two celebrations
Moslems' Angel of Death : Algeria, 1961
Mystery of the church in St. Ignatius of Antioch, The
Mystics and Zen masters
Name of the Lord, The
Nativity message, The : A monastic reading. For Bible Today. 1965.
New Christian consciousness, A?
New man, The. Japanese.
News from the school at Chartres
News of the Joyce industry
Nhat Hanh is my brother
Nicholas of Cusa : dialogue about the hidden God
Night of destiny
No man is an island
No man is an island. Vietnamese. (Khong ai là mot hòn dáo). Translated into Vietnamese by Thanh-Bang.
No more strangers, by Philip Francis Berrigan
Non-violence and the Christian conscience, by Raymond Régamey, O. P.
Non-violence does not— cannot— mean passivity. Note for Ave Maria.
Note on civil disobedience and non-violent revolution (submitted at the request of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence)
Note on Victor Hammer, A
Notes for a statement on aid to civilian war victims in Vietnam
Notes for Bangkok talk
Notes from an ex novice. Preface to "A memo from monasticism's separated brethren," by Jack O'Neill
Notes on art and worship
Notes on love and need - April 1966
Notes on sacred art
Notes on the future of monasticism
Novitiate reading list. 1963.
Opening the Bible. Introduction to the Time Life Bible.
Openness and cloister
Origen
Orthodoxy and the world. Review of "Ultimate questions" and "Sacraments and orthodoxy," by Alexander Schmemann.
Other side of despair, The : notes on Christian existentialism
Our monastic observances
Paper cranes (The Hibakusha come to Gethsemani)
Passivity and abuse of authority
Pasternak's letters to Georgian friends
Peace and protest : a statement
Peace and revolution : a footnote from Ulysses (for Pax conference, Tivoli, 1968)
Peace in the post-Christian era
Peace on earth : a Christian responsibility
Picture of Lee Ying
Place of obedience in monastic renewal, The
Plague of Camus, The : a commentary and introduction
Platform scripture of Hui Neng, The; translated by Wing-tsit Chan
Plessy vs. Ferguson : theme and variations
Poems of Nicanor Parra. Translation.
Poetry and the contemplative life
Poorer means, The : a meditation on ways to unity
Prayer for peace
Prayer of Cassiodorus / preface and translation by Thomas Merton; from the treatise "De Anima"
Prayer to St. Anatole
Pre-Benedictine monachism, series II : Syria, Persia, Palestine
Priest and worker : autobiography of Henri Perrin, by Henri Perrin. Review.
Prison meditations of Father Alfred Delp, The
Project for a hermitage. Fall 1964.
Prophetic ambiguities : Milton and Camus
Prospects of Nostradamus, The
Protestant monasticism. Review of Die Monastische Gedanke, by Friedrich Parpert.
Rafael Alberti and his angels
Rain and the feast of the stars
Rain and the rhinoceros
Reading translated poets, Feb. 1
Readings from Ibn Abbad
Readings on the modern world : compiled for novice masters, O.C.S.O.
Rebirth and the new man in Christianity
Redeeming the time : the Catholic church after Vatican II
Reflections on some recent studies of St. Anselm
Religion and the bomb
Renewal and discipline : afterthoughts
Renewal in monastic education
Rilke's epitaph
Rise of protestant monasticism, The; by François Biot
Rites for the extrusion of a leper
Roman nocturnes, translation of poem by Rafael Alberti
Round and a hope for Smith girls, A
Rule of St. Benedict, The
Ruler's examination of conscience, A : some texts from François Fénelon. Preface.
Sacrament of Advent in the spirituality of St. Bernard, The
Sacrament of Advent in the spirituality of St. Bernard, The
Sacred city, The
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx and the Cistercians
Saint Anselm and his argument
Saint Anselm and his biographer, by Richard William Southern
Saint Bernard, monk and apostle
Saint Maximus the Confessor on non-violence
Saints Peter and Paul (notes for a sermon)
Sanctity in the epistles of St. Paul. Scriptural course, Abbey of Gethsemani.
Schema XIII : an open letter to the American hierarchy
Secret, Le
Secular saint, The; by Michael Novak (Center magazine 1, July 1968)
Seeds of contemplation. Japanese.
Selections on prayer : from the writings of saints and men of prayer, fifth to the twentieth centuries. 1959.
Selections on prayer. Compiled by Thomas Merton. Gethsemani, 1961.
Self-denial and the Christian
Sermon of Isaac of Stella, A; Introduction by Thomas Merton, translated by Sr. Penelope Lawson, C.S.M.V.
Seven Storey Mountain, The. Preface to the Japanese edition.
Seven words (for Ned O'Gorman)
Shoshoneans, The
Significance of the Bhagavad-Gita, The. Preface to The Bhagavad Gita as it is, by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupFada.
Silence and sign language
Silence in heaven : a book of the monastic life / text by Thomas Merton; with ninety photographs and many texts from religious writings
Solitary life, The [transcription of a tape made for the Savannah Carmel]
Some poems of Raissa Maritain. Translated and with an introduction by Thomas Merton.
Song for the death of Averroës (from Ibn Al Arabi, after the Spanish version of Asin Palacios)
Song from the Geography of Lograire
Spiritual direction [article for the New catholic encyclopedia]
Spiritual direction in the monastic setting
Spiritual doctrine of St. Ammonas, The; and The letters of Blessed Ammonas, translated by Brothers Methodius and Chrysostom.
Spiritual father in Christian monastic tradition, The
Spiritual roots of protest, The. Retreat, November 1964. Notes.
Statement for Der Christ in der welt
Statement on clerical celibacy
Stranger, The : poverty of an anti-hero
Street is for celebration, The : written for Msgr. Fox, "Spanish Community Action Book Project."
Study of good, A; by Kitaro Nishida
Study of Zen, The
Symbolism : communication or communion?
Target equals city
Teilhard's gamble : betting on the whole human species
Ten poems of Alfonso Cortés. Translation.
Terror and the absurd : violence and non-violence in Albert Camus
Three prayers : written for Frank Kacmarcik [concerning the vocation of sacred artist, iconographer, or architect of religious spaces]
Three saviors in Camus
To each his darkness : notes on a novel by Julien Green
Tragedy of a worker-priest, The. Review of priest and worker : autobiography of Henri Perrin
Trial of Pope Pius XII, The. Review of The deputy (Der stellvertreter), by Rolf Hochhuth.
Tribute to Gandhi, A
True legendary sound, The : the poetry and criticism of Edwin Muir. Review of Collected poems, Estate of poetry, and Essays on literature and society.
Tune for festive dances in the nineteen sixties, A
Twelve poems of Fernando Pessoa; tr. with an introd. by Thomas Merton
Two Comments : "Sensitivity training" [by Charlotte Buhler] and "The avant garde in the arts" [by Henry Winthrop and Gerald Sykes]
Two letters on the race question
Universe as Epiphany, The : the spirituality of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Vallejo, César, 1892-1938
Varieties of unbelief, by Martin E. Marty. Review.
Vow of obedience, The
Vows in Particular, The. The Benedictine vows.
War and the crisis of language
War and vision : the autobiography of a Crow Indian
Way of Chuang Tzu, The
Western fellow students salute with calypso anthems : The movie career of Robert Lax
What to think when it rains blood (After a letter of Fulbert of Chartres to King Robert, --XI Cent.)
Who is Nat Turner? Review of The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron.
Why aienation is for everybody
Why some look up to planets and heroes. Poem by Thomas Merton.
Wild places, The. Review of Wilderness and the American mind, by Roderick Nash.
Wilderness and paradise. Review of Christ in the wilderness, by Ulrich Mauser, and Wilderness and paradise in Christian thought, by George Williams.
William Congdon. Notes.
With the world in my blood stream
Woods, shore, desert : a notebook - May 1968
Writing as temperature. Review of Writing degree zero, by Roland Barthes and of On Racine, by Roland Barthes.
Zen : sense and sensibility. Review of Zen Catholicism, by Aelred Graham, O.S.B.
Zen Buddhist monasticism
Zen in Japanese art, by Toshimitsu Hasumi
Zen Koan, The
Zukofsky : the paradise ear
 
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