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Title
Action and contemplation in St. Bernard
Adaptation of the monastic life : some personal observations
Address to the Special General Chapter, Sisters of Loretto, August 1967
Advent
Advent mystery, The
Aids to mental prayer
And so goodbye to cities
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
Asian letter I. [November circular letter to friends. New Delhi, India, 1968.]
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)
Basic principles of monastic spirituality
Benedictines, The. Review of The Benedictines; a digest for moderns, by David Knowles, O.S.B.
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 theology. Transcription from tape, 1968.
Cassian and the Fathers
Cell, The
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 solitude : notes on an experiment
Christian worship and social reform
Christianity and defense in the nuclear age : notes for a conference to an ecumenical group
Christianity and Marxism. Necessity for dialogue.
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
Comment on Charlotte Buhler, Tom Stonier, Walter A. Weisskopf
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
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
D. T. Suzuki : the man and his work
Danger signals : points for examination of conscience
Danish non-violent resistance to Hitler
Day of a stranger
Death of God and the end of history, The
Declarations on the holy rule of Saint Benedict according to the Observance of the Brethren of Christian Unity; and, A suggested monastic horarium
Devout meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann, A
Doctrine of Saint Bernard
Dom Vital at Gethsemani
Duns Scotus
Early legend, The (six fragments of a work in progress)
Early poems, 1940-42
Easter homily
Ecumenism and monastic renewal
Edifying cables
Eight freedom songs
Eighteen poems
Enemy of the state, An. Review of In solitary witness, by Gordon Zahn.
Epitaph for a public servant (In memoriam - Adolf Eichmann)
Ernesto Cardenal
Essays by Thomas Merton : a Pax Christi reprint
Evagrius Ponticus : monk of Scete
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
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
Flannery O'Connor : a prose elegy
For a renewal of eremitism in the monastic state
Form letter to "My dear Friend," c. 1963
Forty-three signatures : an exhibit of drawings
Fr. Louis speaks to us about God's mercy and the desire for solitude [excerpts from the Epilogue of Seven storey mountain]
Fr. Louis speaks to us about silence, poverty, and death [excerpts from No man is an island]
Fr. Louis speaks to us about the prophetic vocations of the monk, and about the Sign of Jonas
Fr. Louis speaks to us about the shadow of God's wings [excerpts from Bread in the wilderness]
Franciscan eremitism
From pilgrimage to crusade
Genesis. Notes.
Gloss on the sin of Ixion
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.
Humanity of Christ in monastic prayer, The
Identity crisis and monastic vocation
Importance of sacred art, The. Excerpt from Art and worship [unpublished manuscript]
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 English mystics, An
Introduction to the life of the vows, An
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
Last Mass in the hermitage
Last of the patriarchs, the : the recorded sayings of Shen-hui, by Richard See Yee Chi
Learning to live
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 a poet about Vallejo
Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra concerning giants, A
Life of St. Benedict, by St. Gregory the Great : selected texts. Compiled by Thomas Merton.
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.
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]
Memorandum : on monastic renewal
Merton on community (notes on Marshall McLuhan). Transcript of audio recording.
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 of contemplatives to the modern world
Message to poets [from Thomas Merton]
Modern biographical sketches of Cistercian Blessed and Saints, Book IV; edited by a monk of Gethsemani
Monastic courtesy
Monastic experience and the East-West dialogue : notes for a paper delivered at Calcutta, October 1968
Monastic formation according to Adam of Perseigne
Monastic introduction to sacred scripture, A
Monastic orientation
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
My campaign platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse
My visits to the secular bookhouse
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.
Nature and art in William Blake : an essay in interpretation. Master's thesis, Columbia University, New York, February 1939.
New Christian consciousness, A?
New man, The. Japanese.
News from the school at Chartres
News of the Joyce industry
Nicholas of Cusa : dialogue about the hidden God
Night of destiny
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.
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 Vatican II Pastoral Constitution: Gaudium et Spes, Article 18.
Note on Victor Hammer, A
Notes for a paper delivered at Calcutta, October 1968
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 from meeting of contemplatives (notes taken by a nun from Thomas Merton's talk, December 1967)
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.
Official hymn of the 36th International Eucharistic Congress [Rio de Janeiro, 1955]
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
Passivity and abuse of authority
Pasternak's letters to Georgian friends
Peace : Christian duties and perspectives
Peace and protest : a statement
Peace and revolution : a footnote from Ulysses (for Pax conference, Tivoli, 1968)
Peace in the post-Christian era
Plague of Camus, The : a commentary and introduction
Plessy vs. Ferguson : theme and variations
Poems of Nicanor Parra. Translation.
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 I : Rufinus, Cassian, Saint Pachomius, Saint Basil, etc.
Pre-Benedictine monachism, series I and II
Pre-Benedictine monachism, series II : Syria, Persia, Palestine
Primitive Carmelite ideal, The
Prison meditations of Father Alfred Delp, The
Problems and orientations of monachism, by Dom Jean Leclercq, O.S.B. [Etudes, May 1964]. Translated into English by Thomas Merton.
Project for a hermitage. Fall 1964.
Prophetic ambiguities : Milton and Camus
Prospects of Nostradamus, The
Race—peace and rights (miscellaneous papers 1963-1967)
Rafael Alberti and his angels
Vol. 02 Poetry and Poets
Rain and the rhinoceros
Readings from Ibn Abbad
Readings on the modern world : compiled for novice masters, O.C.S.O.
Rebirth and the new man in Christianity
Red or dead : the anatomy of a cliché
Redeeming the time : the Catholic church after Vatican II
Reflections on the character and genius of Fénelon : an introduction to Fénelon's letters
Religion and the bomb
Religion in wood : a book of Shaker furniture, by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews
Renewal and discipline in the monastic life
Rilke's epitaph
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.
Sacred city, The
Saint Anselm and his argument
Saint Bernard, monk and apostle
Saint Maximus the Confessor on non-violence
Sanctity in the epistles of St. Paul. Scriptural course, Abbey of Gethsemani.
Schema XIII : an open letter to the American hierarchy
Secret, Le
Seeds of contemplation. Japanese.
Selections from the Institutes of John Cassian, Abbot of Marseilles (a Gethsemani translation)
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.
Seneca
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 (a review-article)
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 : a letter of Guido [I, Prior of the Grande Chartreuse, 1083?-1136]
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 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 the desert 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
Study of good, A; by Kitaro Nishida
Study of Zen, The
Sufis (introduction to Islam and Sufism). Transcript of a recorded conference.
Symbolism : communication or communion?
Talk of Father Louis to novices and postulants. Loretto. May 15, 1963. Transcribed from a tape.
Target equals city
Technology
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
Thomas Merton on prayer at Darjeeling
Three prayers : written for Frank Kacmarcik [concerning the vocation of sacred artist, iconographer, or architect of religious spaces]
Three saviors in Camus : lucidity and the absurd
To each his darkness : notes on a novel of Julien Green
Tragedy of a worker-priest, The. Review of priest and worker : autobiography of Henri Perrin
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
Universe as Epiphany, The : the spirituality of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Varieties of unbelief, by Martin E. Marty. Review.
Vatican Pavilion : New York World's Fair, 1964-1965
Vietnam : lotus in a sea of fire, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Virginity and humanism in the Western fathers
War and the crisis of language
War and vision : the autobiography of a Crow Indian
Way of Chuang Tzu, The
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.
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 Koan, The
Zukofsky : the paradise ear
 

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