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Title
1967 Western datebook, The. Notes (printed material with holograph notations).
Action and contemplation in St. Bernard
Adaptation of the monastic life : some personal observations
Advent
Advent mystery, The
Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167
Aestheticism : the "Highbrow" problem. Fragment on Eric Gill.
Alaska and California schedule notes, 1968 [found in book with marginalia].
Alaska conferences. Notes.
Angel and the machine, The
Angel, The
Anglican Devotion, by Charles James Stranks
Anglicanisme. Review of English Spirituality, by Martin Thorton.
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
Answer of Minerva, The : pacifism and resistance in Simone Weil
Answers for Hernan Lavin Cerda
Answers on art and freedom
Answers on non-violence : answers to World Campus on non-violence
Answers on prayer and action.
Answers to T. McDonnell.
Anthology of Islamic literature : from the rise of Islam to modern times
Apologies to an unbeliever
Approach to creativity, An
Art and morality
Art irlandais, L'; by Françoise Henry. Review.
Art of prayer, The : an Orthodox anthology; compiled by Igumen Chariton of Valamo. Notes.
Articles du procès informatif de béatification et canonisation du serviteur de Dieu, Marie-Joseph Cassant : moine et prêtre de l'Abbaye Cistercienne Sainte-Marie du Désert, …
Articles etc. in the Oakhamian (by Thomas Merton).
Ascent to truth, The
Ascetismo e monachesimo prebenedittino
Ash Wednesday
Asian notes: October 15 to December 7, 1968. Transcribed from holographic journals.
Attente dans le silence, L' : le père Marie-Joseph Cassant, O. Cist. S. O., by Etienne Chenevière. Preface.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Aujourd'hui le Bouddhisme, by Thich Nhât Hanh. Notes.
Auschwitz : a family camp
Awakening of a new consciousness in Zen, The; by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Review.
Bantu philosophy, by Placide Tempels. Notes.
Baptism in the forest : wisdom and initiation in William Faulkner
Barthes, Roland. Notes.
Barth's dream and other conjectures
Basis of Christian non-violence, The
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
Benedictine monasticism. Notes.
Benedictine rule and active presence in the world, by Jean Leclercq. Translated from the Italian by Thomas Merton.
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
Biblical man (conferences). Notes.
Black magazines, The
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 Angela of Foligno. Notes.
Blessed are the meek : the roots of Christian non-violence
Blessed Guerric : Easter sermons. Notes.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945. Notes.
Book list - titles
Book of pictures (preliminary plan). I. e., Gethsemani : a life of praise.
Boom!!! Poema de Ludovico Silva. Prólogo de Thomas Merton.
Bread in the wilderness
Brothers and aggiornamento
Buddhism and the modern world
Bulletin for Collectanea
Call of the desert, The; by Peter Frederick Anson
Call to contemplation, The. Notes.
Camus : journals of the Plague years
Camus and the Catholic church
Camus. Notes.
Cargo : notes for a talk on Cargo [Cargo cults]
Carrera Andrade, Jorge, 1903-1978. Notes and translations.
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566
Cassiodorus, Senator, ca. 487-ca. 580. Notes.
Catch of anti-letters, A; by Thomas Merton and Robert Lax
Catholic conscience, The. Notes.
Cell, The
Cells. Notes.
Centenary celebrations, June 1949 : Gethsemani
Chadwick, Nora K. Notes on Poetry and prophecy.
Ch'an of Shen Hui, The. Introduction.
Character and spirit of St. Benedict from St. Gregory's Dialogue II, The
Chrétiennes celtiques, Les; by Olivier Loyer
Christ lives today. Script for a film shown at the Vatican Pavilion - New York world's fair.
Christ of the desert
Christ the king. Notes.
Christ, sacrement de la rencontre de Dieu, Le; by Edward Schillebeeckx
Christian action in world crisis
Christian and Oriental philosophy of art, by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. Notes.
Christian commitment, The; by Karl Rahner. Review.
Christian contemplation. Edited with an introduction by Robert E. Daggy.
Christian humanism
Christian in time of change, The
Christian learning. Notes.
Christian looks at Zen, A. Introduction to The golden age of Zen, by Jingxiong Wu (John C. H. Wu).
Christian message in a changing world, The
Christian solitude : notes on an experiment
Christianisme Russe, by Divo Barsotti. Review.
Christianity : post-Hiroshima. Outline.
Christianity and defense in the nuclear age : notes for a conference to an ecumenical group
Christianity and Marxism. Necessity for dialogue.
Christianity and Zen. Notes.
Christmas homily 1963
Christmas night. Unpublished material from the original manuscript of The seven storey mountain.
Christmas sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny, The
Church is Christ alive in the world, The. Script for a film shown at the Vatican Pavilion - New York world's fair.
Church. Notes.
Cistercian history. Notes [with other notes, see detailed view].
City in history, The; by Lewis Mumford. Notes.
Classic Chinese thought
Classicism in Faulkner's The bear and The wild palms. Notes.
Classicism in literature. Lecture notes.
Climate of mercy, The; for Albert Schweitzer
Climate of monastic prayer, The
Collected works of Ramana Maharshi, The; edited by Arthur Osborne
Come to the mountain : new ways and living traditions in the monastic life
Comment on Charlotte Buhler, Tom Stonier, Walter A. Weisskopf
Comments on article 79 of Constitution on church in modern world
Commonweal, to the editors of the
Communist centralism. Notes.
Community. Notes.
Concept of acedia, The. Review of The sin of sloth : acedia in medieval thought and literature, by Siegfried Wenzel.
Concerning the Catholic Peace Fellowship : three letters and a statement
Concerning the collection in Bellarmine College Library
Conference notes (various)
Conflict without violence, by Jerome Frank. Comments by Ira Sandperl (corrections and comments by Thomas Merton).
Conjectures of a guilty bystander
Consuetudines, The. Edited with a commentary by Thomas Merton.
Contemplation and ecumenism
Contemplation and the priesthood
Contemplation et vie contemplative selon Platon, by André Marie Jean Festugière. Notes.
Contemplation in a rocking chair
Contemplation in a world of action
Contemplation. Notes.
Contemplative and the atheist, The
Contemplative life in the modern world, The
Contemplative life today, The. Transcription of a tape made for the Savannah Carmel.
Contemplative life, The : its meaning and necessity
Contemplative life, The. Plan. [outline for a book] (1950)
Contemplative life. Transcription from tapes for the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany. September 1967.
Contents of book provisionally called "Worldly essays"
Continuum, to the Editor of
Conversatio morum. Expanded from a talk given October 6, 1964, North American Novice Masters' Meeting.
Correspondence : note on Joyce's Ulysses (letter to the editor of the Sewanee Review)
Cortés, Alfonso, 1893-1969
Council and monasticism, The
Creative silence
Critic's choice. Five reviews.
Cross fighters, The : notes on a race war
Cross in our lives, The
Cur Deus homo and other Anselmiana
Curriculum vitae
D. T. Suzuki : the man and his work
Day of a stranger
Days of awe, by Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Excerpts.
Death of a holy terror, The : the strange story of Frère Pascal
Death of God and the end of history, The
Death of Roger LaPorte (copies from the Catholic Peace Fellowship records)
Delp, Alfred
Devout meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann, A
Dialog with Buddhism. Notes.
Dialogue and renewal in the contemplative life
Dialogues I, by Anselm of Havelberg, Texte latin, note préliminaire, traduction, notes et appendice par le P. Gaston Salet, S.J. Review and notes.
Discipline. Notes.
Doctor M. B. Bramachari : a personal tribute
Doctrine spirituelle de Théophane le Reclus, La : le coeur et l'ecrit, by Thomas Spidlik, S. J.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Notes.
Dream of the rood and Anglo-Saxon monasticism, The; by John Fleming
Early monasticism [Theoria physike / Theoria physica, "Notes and Sentences," and Return to Paradise]
East Harlem book
Easter : the new life
Easter homily
Ecrits spirituels, by Jules Monchanin, présentation d'Edouard Duperray. Review.
Ecumenism and monastic renewal
English mystics, The
Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373
Epictetus
Epiphany sermon - 1955
Eremitism in Mallorca. Review of Mallorca eremitica, by un Ermitano.
Eremitism. Comment on L'Eremetisme a la Catalunya Nova, by Eufemià Fort I Cogul.
Essence in mysticism. Notes.
Ethics and war : a footnote
Eucharist. Notes.
Evaluation of his own books. 1967.
Examination of conscience and conversatio morum
Excerpts from various thinkers: Buber, Gill, Mumford, Suzuki, Gandhi, Haessle, Jewish spirituality, etc.
Exercises to help bring the body under control of the spirit
Exile ends in glory; the life of a Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans, O.C.S.O.
Exodus. Notes. 1957-1958
Faith
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715
Final conference to novices
Final integration : toward a monastic therapy
Final integration in the adult personality, by A. Reza Arasteh. American Journal of Psychoanalysis 25 (1965) 61-73.
Five important books for Catholic book annual. Reviews.
Five limericks for Father Raymond languishing in St. Joseph's Infirmary
Florence, 1966.
Footnotes to an article [mentions John Cassian, Homilies of Gregory the Great, Leo the Great, and Bede]
For a renewal of eremitism in the monastic state
For the Hibakusha. Notes.
Forty-three signatures : an exhibit of drawings
Francis, de Sales, Saint, 1567-1622
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Franciscan eremitism
Freedom and authority. Notes.
From pilgrimage to crusade
Function of a monastic review, The
Galician nuns. Comment on Los monasterios de monjas en Galicia, by Germán Valdés Martínez.
Gallo Roman monasticism, Cassian and the background to the Rule of St. Benedict. Notes for conferences, Choir Novitiate.
Gebete, by Anselm of Canterbury. Review.
Genesis. Notes.
Gethsemani : the life of praise
Gethsemani customs (dormitory rules, clothing and supplies, bathing and shaving)
Gethsemani, Abbey of. Article for the New Catholic encyclopedia.
Gift of understanding, The
Godless Christianity
Godly behavior : the ways of God {De moribus divinis of St. Thomas Aquinas}.
God's will
Good Samaritan, The
Grace the seed of glory. Notes for a conference.
Grail the virgin and the divine woman, The. Comments on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel."
Grandmontines, The. Comment on The Grandmontines : a forgotten order, by Desmond Seward.
Guigo the Carthusian. Comment on "Le meditationes del Beato Guigo Certosino," by Maria Elena Cristofolini.
Happiness. Notes.
Hebrew thought. Notes.
Herman's ladder. Notes.
Hermits of the 11th century, The. Notes.
Hesychasm. Review of Hesychasme et prière, by Irénée Hausherr, S. J.
Historical consciousness, The
History of the Cistercian order
Holiness of God, The. Notes.
Holy camp. Review of Monks, nuns, and monasteries, by Sacheverell Sitwell.
Holy Spirit, The
Holy Week, 1964. Notes.
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 Mary, A
Homily on prayer and our priestly vocation. Notes.
Honest to God
Hope. Notes for a conference.
Hot summer of 1967, The
House of prayer, The. Notes.
Human way out, The. Preface.
Humanism and holiness. Notes.
Humanity and divinity of Christ. Notes.
Humanity of Christ in monastic prayer, The
I will be your monk. Unpublished material from the original manuscript of The seven storey mountain.
Ibn Abbad de Ronda, by Paul Nwyia, S. J.
Importance of sacred art, The. Excerpt from Art and worship [unpublished manuscript]
In acceptance of the Pax Medal - 1963
In search of a Yogi, by Denys Rutledge, O.S.B. Preface.
In the monastic community. Unpublished excerpt from The seven storey mountain.
In tune with the world, by Josef Pieper. Review.
Interview with Thomas Merton, An; by Thomas P. McDonnell
Inventory of manuscripts, notebooks etc. April 1967.
Ionesco, Eugène
Irish at court of Charlemagne. Notes, based on Louis Gougaud.
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 de l'Etoile. Review of Sermons, by Isaac of Stella.
Isaac of Stella : an introduction to selections from his Sermons
Isaac of Stella. Notes.
Isaias [notes on the Book of Isaiah]
Ishi : a meditation
It all goes together, by Eric Gill. Extracts.
Jacob's war
Jan van Ruysbroeck, 1293-1381. Notes.
Jesuits in China, The : The case of the Chinese rites and the vernacular
Jesus in the Lenten Gospels
John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591
John, Abbot of Ford. Notes on Wulfric of Haselbury, by John, Abbot of Ford; edited with introduction and notes by Dom Maurice Bell.
John, of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, d. 1180
Journal of my escape from the Nazis
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Jubilee, to the Editor of
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
Kingdom of God today, The; by Otto Karrer. Comment.
Kireevskii, Ivan Vasilevich, 1806-1856
Knowledge of God in the Old Testament. Conference notes.
Laatste dag van Thomas Merton, De ("The Last Day of Thomas Merton": script from Dutch film)
Last of the fathers, The : Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the encyclical letter, Doctor Mellifluus
Learning to live
Lectio divina
Legend of Tucker Caliban, The. Review of A different drummer, by William Melvin Kelley.
Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924
Lenten practices
Let the poor man speak!
Letter of St. Anselm on stability, A
Letter on the hermit life, A (to Dom Anthony Chassagne, O.C.S.O., Mepkin Abbey)
Letter to a priest [regarding "The monk in the diaspora"]
Letter to Leslie Dewart on the Church and revolution
Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra concerning giants, A
Letter to Ramparts, A
Letter to the Editor of the New York Times Book Review, A
Life and holiness. Preface to the Korean edition.
Life at Gethsemani
Life free from care, A; transcription of a taped conference on the occasion of Merton's retirement to the Hermitage, 20 August 1965
Life is tragic : the diary of Nishida Kitaro, by Lothar Knauth. Comment.
List of books by Thomas Merton
Liste de travaux. Soumise a l'approbation des RR. PP. Capitulaires, O.C.S.O., Citeaux, Mai, 1946.
Literary currents in Hispanic America, by Pedro Henríquez Ureña. Notes.
Liturgical renewal : the open approach (a note in pastoral psychology)
Liturgy and social concern. Notes.
Liturgy notes (choir novitiate)
Living bread, The. Notes by Naomi Burton Stone and Rev. Wilfred Thibodeau, S. S. S.
Lookout tower agreement or lease [Fire tower]
Lord of love and light, by a contemporary Cistercian
Loretto and Gethsemani
Loretto tape. Notes.
Love and need : is love a package or a message?
Love and the "Need for others"
Mabillon and Rancé. Notes.
Machine gun in the fallout shelter, The
Makhlouf, Sharbel, Saint, 1828-1898
Mallorca eremitica, by un Ermitano
Man is a gorilla with a gun : reflections on a best seller. Review of African genesis, by Robert Ardrey.
Manual de ermitanos, Un; by Garcia M. Columbás. Yermo 3 (1965).
Marcel and Buddha : a metaphysics of enlightenment, by Sally Donnelly. Foreword.
Mariale of Adam of Perseigne, The : Our Lady and the hidden life
Martha, Mary and Lazarus : Action and Contemplation in Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Martin's predicament : or Atlas watches every evening
Marxism and contemplative life. Notes.
Marxist theory and monastic theoria. Conference delivered at Bangkok, December 10, 1968.
Mass communications, by Wilbur Hugh Ferry and Harry Scott Ashmore. Notes.
Material for a book of essays
Matter of Zen, The
Maximus, of Turin, Saint, 4th/5th cent.
Me and the secular bookhouse
Meaning of history, The; by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdiaev. Notes.
Meaning of Malcolm X, The
Meeting at Gethsemani. December 4-7, 1967. [Contemplative religious women, Sr. Elaine Bane, O.S.F. and others]
Memo on chapter of faults
Memo: concerning my will and testament
Memo: ideas to be incorporated somewhere in Trust arrangements, regarding use of manuscript material
Memorandum on monastic theology, A
Merton : the silent singer (as broadcast over the CBS television network)
Merton reader. Jacket blurb.
Merton's views on non-violence
Message aux amis de Gandhi, January 31, 1965
Message of contemplatives to the modern world
Message of monastic spirituality, The; by André Louf, et al.
Message to poets [from Thomas Merton]
Meyer, Dennis, Fr., O.C.S.O. Notes for a eulogy.
Milton. Notes. 1966.
Mircea Eliade : a critical observer of the archetypal myth. Review of From primitives to Zen, by Mircea Eliade.
Miscellaneous notes, 1961.
Modern priest looks at his outdated Church, A; by James Joseph Kavanaugh. Statement.
Modern war : letter to the editor
Monachisme en Islam et chretienté, Le; by Jean Leclercq.
Monasterios de Benedictines de Galicia, Los; by Maximo Arias. Monastic Studies 8 (1966).
Monasterios y monjes en los 'Diarios' de Jovellanos, by Ildefonso M. Gomez. Yermo 4 (1966) 107-213.
Monasterium-carcer, by Gregorio Penco. Studia Monastica 8 (1966).
Monastic attitudes : a matter of choice
Monastic experience and the East-West dialogue : notes for a paper delivered at Calcutta, October 1968
Monastic formation according to Adam of Perseigne
Monastic formation and novitiate programs
Monastic formation; junior professed choir monks. A memorandum.
Monastic formation; suggestions for experimental project
Monastic life at Gethsemani
Monastic life, The [conference]
Monastic peace
Monastic reform : a memorandum
Monastic renewal : problems and prospects (for Ed Rice)
Monastic rule. Notes.
Monastic situation, The. Notes.
Monastic spirituality. Notes.
Monastic theology : a note
Monastic theology of St. Aelred, The
Monastic vocation and modern thought
Monastic vocation and the background of modern secular thought
Monastic vows : a memorandum
Monasticism in a revolutionary world. Notes.
Monk in the diaspora, The
Monk today, The
Monks pond
More volans aquilae, verbo petit astra Ioannes [woodcut of quote from C. Sedulius (5th cen.)]
Moslem saint of the twentieth century, A : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi
My campaign platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse
My reasons for asking exemption from combatant duty in the army, Under Selective Service law of 1940
Mystery of the church in St. Ignatius of Antioch, The
Mystery of the presentation. Notes.
Mystical theology of Saint Bernard, The; by Étienne Gilson. Marginalia transcribed from book.
Mysticism of The cloud of unknowing, The : a modern interpretation; by William Johnston, S. J. Foreword.
Mystics and Zen masters
Mystique of the Soviet fatherland. Notes.
Nada [note and drawing]
Name of the Lord, The
Nativity gospels. Notes.
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973
Neurotic personality in the monastic life, The
New Christian consciousness, A?
New man, The. Japanese.
New notes on art for novitiate conferences. Summer 1964.
News of the Joyce industry
Night spirit and the dawn air, The
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 does not— cannot— mean passivity. Note for Ave Maria.
Non-violence. Notes.
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 spiritual direction in Sufism, A
Note on the new church at Gethsemani
Note on Victor Hammer, A
Notes for a philosophy of solitude
Notes for a statement on aid to civilian war victims in Vietnam
Notes for an exhibit of drawings
Notes for Bangkok talk
Notes for essay. 1965.
Notes for projects that were not carried out
Notes for some talks on poetry
Notes from an ex novice. Preface to "A memo from monasticism's separated brethren," by Jack O'Neill
Notes on Fr. Vincent de Paul Merle and the Abbey of Petit Clairvaux, Nova Scotia
Notes on love and need - April 1966
Notes on prayer and action
Notes on priestly charity
Notes on sacred art
Notes on the Earthly Paradise
Notes on the future of monasticism
Notes on the Lord's Prayer, by Raïssa Omansoff Maritain. Foreword.
Noticias acerca de la vida eremitica en Hispano-America, by Mauro Matthei, O.S.B. Yermo 3 (1965) 171-188.
Nuclear war and Christian responsibility
Obedience. Notes.
Obstacles to rasa. Notes.
O'Connor, Flannery
Oikonomia and deification
Old Testament. Notes. Gerhard von Rad.
On remembering Monsieur Delmas
One hundred poems of Kabir, tr. by Rabindranath Tagore; assisted by Evelyn Underhill
Opening the Bible. Introduction to the Time Life Bible.
Openness and cloister
Opposition to idea of a religious man who obtains inner peace at any price…
Oriental, etc. Notes.
Orientation : back to Paradise
Origin of Russian communism, The; by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdiaev. Excerpts.
Orthodoxy and the world. Review of "Ultimate questions" and "Sacraments and orthodoxy," by Alexander Schmemann.
Other side of despair, The : notes on Christian existentialism
Output of poetry of permanent value during the present century has been negligible, The : an essay by Thomas Merton written at Oakham School
Ox mountain parable of Meng Tzu, The
Pachomius, Saint
Pacifism
Paraguay missions
Pasternak affair, The [Parts I through III].
Pasternak's letters to Georgian friends
Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978
Peace : a religious responsibility
Peace and protest : a statement
Peace and revolution : a footnote from Ulysses (for Pax conference, Tivoli, 1968)
Peace book. Notes.
Peace on earth : a Christian responsibility
Perpetual daily adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament among the secular priests, The
Persian Sufis, The; by Cyprian Rice
Personal schedule (Fr. Louis) for hermitage, 1965; and Daily schedule (1943-1949)
Philoxenus of Mabbugh. Notes.
Pieces for a liturgical anthology. Notes.
Place of obedience in monastic renewal, The
Platform scripture of Hui Neng, The; translated by Wing-tsit Chan
Plato, The laws. Notes.
Pleasant Hill : a Shaker village in Kentucky, 1806-1910
Plessy vs. Ferguson : theme and variations
Poem written under an archway in a discontinued station, Fargo, N. D., A; by James Wright. Notes.
Poems of Nicanor Parra. Translation.
Poetry and the contemplative life
Poor Clares. Notes [for a conference]
Poorer means, The : a meditation on ways to unity
Pope of the Virgin Mary, The
Poverty. Conference notes.
Prayer and wholeness [a homily given May 29th, 1968 at the Abbey of Gethsemani's small chapel]
Prayer as worship and experience
Prayer of Cassiodorus / preface and translation by Thomas Merton; from the treatise "De Anima"
Prayer of youth in choosing a state of life
Prayer to the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, A
Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Prayer, draft of a
Prayer. Notes on tape.
Prayer. Notes.
Praying the Psalms
Pre-Benedictine monachism, series II : Syria, Persia, Palestine
Présence a Dieu et a soi meme, by Fr. François de Sainte-Marie, O.C.D. Introduction.
Primer of non-violence
Principia. Notes.
Progress and tradition. Points for talks.
Project for a hermitage. Fall 1964.
Prophetic ambiguities : Milton and Camus
Proposal for improving the theological curriculum, Gethsemani Seminary - 1950
Protestant monasticism. Review of Die Monastische Gedanke, by Friedrich Parpert.
Psychedelic "spirituality"
Psychedelic review. Comment (concerning new publication) on Editorial, The Psychedelic Review 6 (1965).
Psychiatry and the problem of religion
Psychological causes of war, The; by Erich Fromm. Comment.
Radio script based on Merton's writings
Raids on the unspeakable
Rain and the feast of the stars
Rain and the rhinoceros
Reading as a path to contemplation (for the Christmas Book Section of the Chicago Tribune)
Readings from Ibn Abbad
Readings on the modern world : compiled for novice masters, O.C.S.O.
Rebirth and the new man in Christianity
Rectitudo chez Sainte Anselme, La; by Robert Pouchet.
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 race in the United States
Religion in wood : a book of Shaker furniture, by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews
Remarks on silence and recollection
Renewal and discipline : afterthoughts
Renewal and discipline in the monastic life
Renewal in monastic education
Renewal in the contemplative life
Renewal of hermit life within the religious state. Notes.
Reply of Father Thomas Merton to Mr. Thomas Molnar
Reply to Dom Kucera
Reply to Martin Marty
Resurrection homily
Revision de vie. Conference notes.
Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco. Notes.
Rise of protestant monasticism, The; by François Biot
Root of war, The
Rubén Darío [Tribute to]
Ruler's examination of conscience, A : some texts from François Fénelon. Preface.
Russian mystics, by Sergius Bolshakoff
Sacrament of Advent in the spirituality of St. Bernard, The
Sacred art and the spiritual life
Sacred city, The
Sacred theology : contemplation [article for the Catholic Encyclopedia for School and Home]
Sacred theology : hermit life
Sacred theology : perfection, Christian
Sacred theology : spiritual life
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx and the Cistercians
Saint Anselm and his argument
Saint Benedict and the contemplative life
Saint Bernard, monk and apostle
Saint Bruno, le premier des ermites de Chartreuse, by André Ravier
Saint Gertrude. Review of Oeuvres spirituelles : I, les exercices, by Gertrude d'Helfta.
Saint Maximus the Confessor on non-violence
Sales figures for various books
Schedule of Fr. M. Louis. Ca. 1950.
Schedule of work days, Sundays, and feast days at Gethsemani Abbey choir noviate (ca. 1963)
Schema XIII : an open letter to the American hierarchy
School of the spirit, The
Scripture and the Cistercian (scripture conference, 1951)
Seasons of celebration
Seeds of contemplation. Japanese.
Seeds of destruction
Seeds of destruction (Sections of manuscript with notes: "The Christian in world crisis" and "Letters in a time of crisis")
Selections from Gandhi
Self-denial and the Christian
Self-devoted friend, The; by Marvin Cohen
Seminar conferences, translations, etc.
Sentences : words made out of silence [from New seeds of contemplation]
Seraphim von Sarow, by Valentine Zander
Sermon for Dedication of Church - 1951
Sermon of Isaac of Stella, A; Introduction by Thomas Merton, translated by Sr. Penelope Lawson, C.S.M.V.
Settlement of the Celtic saints in Wales, The; by Emrys George Bowen
Seven Storey Mountain, The / Excerpts (University at Buffalo)
Seven Storey Mountain, The / Excerpts (University of Kentucky)
Seven Storey Mountain, The / Excerpts (verso of preface)
Seven Storey Mountain, The. Preface to the Japanese edition.
Seven words (for Ned O'Gorman)
Sign of Jonas, The
Signatures and autographs
Signed confession of crimes against the state, A
Significance of the Bhagavad-Gita, The. Preface to The Bhagavad Gita as it is, by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupFada.
Silent life, The
Sincerity in art and life : a letter of Owen Merton; edited and with an introduction by Thomas Merton
Small rain, The; by Raymond Roseliep
Socialistic education in Mexico (1938-1940). Notes on Covering the Mexican front, by Betty Kirk.
Solitary life in the shadow of a Cistercian monastery
Solitary life, The : a letter of Guido [I, Prior of the Grande Chartreuse, 1083?-1136]
Solitary life. Notes.
Solitude
Some guidelines for monastic hermits
Some poems of Raissa Maritain. Translated and with an introduction by Thomas Merton.
Sounds are furious, The
Spiritual consciousness in Zen from a Thomistic theological point of view, by Augustin Hideshi Kishi
Spiritual dialogue of East and West, The
Spiritual direction [article for the New catholic encyclopedia]
Spiritual direction [unpublished draft circa 1956]
Spiritual father in Christian monastic tradition, The
Spiritual father in the desert tradition, The
Spiritual roots of protest, The. Retreat, November 1964. Notes.
Split in Christian consciousness, The
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Starter questions. Notes.
Statement : for Authors take sides on Vietnam
Statement concerning Thich Nhat Hanh, A
Statement for Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF)
Statement for Der Christ in der welt
Statement for the French TV on the "Black Revolution"
Statement on clerical celibacy
Statement on factory farming, A
Statement on University of Kentucky degree
Story of Fr. Dennis, The
Stranger, The : poverty of an anti-hero
Street is for celebration, The
Study of good, A; by Kitaro Nishida
Study of Zen, The
Sufism. Notes.
Suggestions for the prayer of the faithful
Symbolism : communication or communion?
Syrian monastic rules. Notes.
Talks on Rilke (Fall-Winter 1965)
Technique and personal devotion in the Zen exercise, by Heinrich Dumoulin, from Studies in Japanese culture (1963): pp. 17-40.
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
Tetragrammaton. Notes.
Theological basis of the monastic ideal. Notes.
Theology of hope. Notes.
Theology of prayer. Notes.
Third spiritual alphabet, The; by Fray Francisco de Osuna, translated by a Benedictine of Stanbrook
Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart), 1913-2000
Thoughts in solitude. Preface to the Japanese edition. Nihon gohan e no jobun; Kodoku no naka no shisaku/ Translated into Japanese by Yasuwo Kikama.
Three Muslim sages
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
Time and the liturgy
Time of the end is the time of no room, The
Today we live. Script for a film shown at the Vatican Pavilion - New York world's fair.
Todo y nada : writing and contemplation. Previously unpublished material from a manuscript of The seven storey mountain.
Tom's book : to Granny with Tom's best love 1916
Toward a renewal of eremitism. Appendix III.
Toward a theology of prayer. Ed. with an introd. by Naomi Burton Stone; transcribed by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O., from a talk delivered in India, 1968.
Tradition occidentale. Comment on article, "Saint Augustine as psychotherapist," by Martin Versfield, in Blackfriars 45 (March 1964): 98-110.
Tragedy of a worker-priest, The. Review of priest and worker : autobiography of Henri Perrin
Transcendent experience
Transformation of man in mystical Islam, The; in "Man and transformation" (1964): 37-68.
Transmission by guru. Notes.
Trappists go to Utah, The
Trial of Pope Pius XII, The. Review of The deputy (Der stellvertreter), by Rolf Hochhuth.
Tribute to Gandhi, A
Tribute to Rubén Darío
True legendary sound, The : the poetry and criticism of Edwin Muir. Review of Collected poems, Estate of poetry, and Essays on literature and society.
Truth and violence : notes on an interesting era
Twelve poems of Fernando Pessoa; tr. with an introd. by Thomas Merton
Twentieth century religious thought, by John Macquarrie
Two Chinese classics
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
Two paragraphs from Pacem in terris
Unamuno. Comment on Unamuno y la vida monástica, by Jesus Alvarez Arroyo. Yermo 4 (1966) 1-50.
Universe as Epiphany, The : the spirituality of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Unpublished aphorisms
Upanishads. Notes.
Utilisation de l'Écriture Sainte chez Anselme de Cantorbéry, L'; by Réginald Grégoire, O.S.B. [Revue d‘Acétique et de Mystique (Toulouse) 39 (1963) 273-293]
Vallejo, César, 1892-1938
Varieties of unbelief, by Martin E. Marty. Review.
Vatican council and sacred art, The
Vida en el amor, by Ernesto Cardenal
Vie érémitique d'après la doctrine du bienheureux Paul Giustiniani, La ; Seul avec Dieu. Préf. de Thomas Merton [par Dom Jean Leclercq].
Vietnam : lotus in a sea of fire, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Vita monastica = vita apostolica. Conference notes.
Waning of the visual, The; by Harley Parker
War and the crisis of language
War and vision : the autobiography of a Crow Indian
Way of Chuang Tzu, The
Way of perfection, The; and The Church's questionnaire on perfection
Ways of love, The. Excerpt from The seven storey mountain
What is contemplation?
White pebble, The
Who is Nat Turner? Review of The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron.
Why some look up to planets and heroes. Poem by Thomas Merton.
Why we can't wait, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?
Windows of Bourges, The. Notes on St. William of Bourges.
Wisdom in emptiness : a dialogue between Daisetz T. Suzuki and Thomas Merton
Woods, shore, desert : a notebook - May 1968
Word and example. Deleted chapter from Exile ends in glory.
Work
Workshop given at Precious Blood Monastery in Alaska
Writing as temperature. Review of Writing degree zero, by Roland Barthes and of On Racine, by Roland Barthes.
Your will and your vocation
Zen and Christian mysticism, by William Johnston, S. J.
Zen and existentialism. Notes on Zen Buddhism, selected writings of D. T. Suzuki; edited by William Barrett.
Zen and the birds of appetite
Zen and the new Christians
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis, by D. T. Suzuki, Erich Fromm, and Richard DeMartino
Zen Buddhist monasticism
Zen in Japanese art
Zen Koan, The
Zen, weg zur erleuchtung
Zen. Notes.
Zukofsky : the paradise ear
 

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