Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
Teoksen The Seven Storey Mountain tekijä
About the Author
Born in France, Thomas Merton was the son of an American artist and poet and her New Zealander husband, a painter. Merton lost both parents before he had finished high school, and his younger brother was killed in World War II. Something of the ephemeral character of human endeavor marked all his näytä lisää works, deepening the pathos of his writings and drawing him close to Eastern, especially Buddhist, forms of monasticism. After an initial education in the United States, France, and England, he completed his undergraduate degree at Columbia University. His parents, nominally friends, had given him little religious guidance, and in 1938, he converted to Roman Catholicism. The following year he received an M.A. from Columbia University and in 1941, he entered Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, where he remained until a short time before his death. His working life was spent as a Trappist monk. At Gethsemani, he wrote his famous autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (1948); there he labored and prayed through the days and years of a constant regimen that began with daily prayer at 2:00 a.m. As his contemplative life developed, he still maintained contact with the outside world, his many books and articles increasing steadily as the years went by. Reading them, it is hard to think of him as only a "guilty bystander," to use the title of one of his many collections of essays. He was vehement in his opposition to the Vietnam War, to the nuclear arms race, to racial oppression. Having received permission to leave his monastery, he went on a journey to confer with mystics of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. He was accidentally electrocuted in a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 10, 1968. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
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Ajatuksia yksinäisyydessä : hengellisestä elämästä ja ihmisen yksinäisyydestä… (1958) 1,156 kappaletta
Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation (The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume One 1939-1941) (1995) 394 kappaletta
Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer (The Journals of Thomas Merton, V. 2) (1996) 290 kappaletta
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The last of the Fathers; Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the encyclical letter, Doctor Mellifluus (1954) 168 kappaletta
Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years (The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4: 1960-1963) (1996) 165 kappaletta
The hidden ground of love : the letters of Thomas Merton on religious experience and social concerns (1985) 164 kappaletta
Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom (Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton) (1997) 159 kappaletta
The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton) (1998) 148 kappaletta
The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers (The Thomas Merton letters series) (1993) 111 kappaletta
The School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction (1990) 102 kappaletta
What are these wounds? : the life of a Cistercian mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières (1948) 85 kappaletta
Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters: The Essential Collection (Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton) (2008) 81 kappaletta
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A course in Christian mysticism : thirteen sessions with the famous Trappist monk Thomas Merton (2017) 47 kappaletta
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A Course in Desert Spirituality: Fifteen Sessions with the Famous Trappist Monk (2019) 27 kappaletta
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An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition, 3 (Monastic Wisdom series) (Bk. 3) (2008) 23 kappaletta
The Rule of Saint Benedict: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition 4 (Monastic Wisdom) (2009) 22 kappaletta
Pre-Benedictine Monasticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 2 (Monastic Wisdom) (2006) 21 kappaletta
At Home in the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether (1995) 20 kappaletta
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Breakthrough to Peace: Twelve Views on the Threat of Thermonuclear Extermination (1962) 18 kappaletta
Merton & Judaism: Holiness in Words: Recognition, Repentance, and Renewal (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) (2003) 17 kappaletta
Monastic Observances: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition 5 (Monastic Wisdom - Cistercian Publications) (1976) 14 kappaletta
In the Valley of Wormwood: Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age (Cistercian Studies) (2013) 12 kappaletta
Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition 7 (Monastic Wisdom… (2015) 9 kappaletta
From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal (2017) 8 kappaletta
Letters from Tom: Thomas Merton Writes about Nuclear Weapons, Black/White Encounters, Authority in the Church, and… (1983) 8 kappaletta
The Spirit of simplicity : characteristic of the Cistercian Order : an official report, demanded and approved by the… (1948) 7 kappaletta
Merton & the Tao: Dialogues with John Wu and the Ancient Sages (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) (2013) 6 kappaletta
Szukanie Boga 5 kappaletta
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The Cistercian Fathers and their monastic theology : initiation into the monastic tradition 8 (2016) 3 kappaletta
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Medieval Cistercian History: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 9 (Monastic Wisdom Series) (2019) 3 kappaletta
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Meatyard / Merton: Photographing Thomas Merton (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) (2014) 3 kappaletta
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Nuovi semi di contemplazione 2 kappaletta
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Paz En Tiempos De Oscuridad. El Testamento De Thomas Merton Sobre La Guerra Y La Paz (2006) 2 kappaletta
The Paternoster Series No. 7: What Is Contemplation? 2 kappaletta
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Life and Prayer: The Desert Source 2 kappaletta
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La vida silenciosa 1 kappale
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O Homem Novo 1 kappale
Loretto and Gethsemani, 1812-1962 1 kappale
Collected Poems of Thomas Merton 1 kappale
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The Secular Journal of... 1 kappale
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Cassian: Trials and Belief 1 kappale
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Natural Contemplation 1 kappale
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LA EXPERIENCIA INTERNA 1 kappale
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Clement of Alexandria Selections from the Protreptikos (1962) — Essay, eräät painokset; Kääntäjä, eräät painokset — 12 kappaletta
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Muut nimet
- Fr. Louis
MERTON, Thomas
梅頓 - Syntymäaika
- 1915-01-31
- Kuolinaika
- 1968-12-10
- Hautapaikka
- Gethsemani Abbey, Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- France (birth)
USA - Syntymäpaikka
- Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
- Kuolinpaikka
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Asuinpaikat
- New York, New York, USA
Saint-Antonin, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Montauban, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Ealing, Greater London, England, UK
Ripley, Surrey, England, UK
Olean, New York, USA (näytä kaikki 8)
Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky, USA - Koulutus
- Lycée Ingres, Montauban
Ripley Court School, Ripley
University of Cambridge (Clare College)
Columbia University (BA, MA) - Ammatit
- monk (Trappist)
novelist
poet
college teacher - Organisaatiot
- Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists)
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The ascent to truth Tekijä: Thomas Merton
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A second read of one of TM's later books. Also a read after reading more Jesuits philosophy. Became infatuated with TM 35 years ago. His mental and spiritual wanderings are internal and on this re-read sounded like spiritual naval gazing with the Catholic verbial trimmings (a lot of capital letters). But when one sits and prays and thinks without reflecting on actions never taken that is where a well meaning literary monk would end up,
But Catholicism is a large tent. Both TMs and Father James Martin's "God is where You Are" and the Jesuits "God in All things" can abide.… (lisätietoja)
But Catholicism is a large tent. Both TMs and Father James Martin's "God is where You Are" and the Jesuits "God in All things" can abide.… (lisätietoja)
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