The Merton Annual The ITMS and the Thomas Merton Center support publication of The Merton Annual: Studies in Culture, Spirituality and Social Concerns. The Merton Annual is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles about Thomas Merton and about related matters of major concern to his life and work. Its purpose is to enhance Merton’s reputation as a writer and monk, to continue to develop his message for our times, and to provide a regular outlet for substantial Merton-related scholarship. The Merton Annual includes as regular features reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished, or obscurely published, Merton materials, photographs and art. Essays about related literary and spiritual matters will also be considered. Manuscripts and books for review may be sent to either of the editors.   ITMS members can purchase The Merton Annual at a special rate. Copies can also be ordered from the Thomas Merton Center - order The Merton Annual, volume 30. (Volumes 18 - 29 may also be ordered from the Merton Center - contact merton@bellarmine.edu for further information.)   Volume 30 of The Merton Annual is now available and Volume 31 is due for publication in Spring 2019. The Merton Annual is available to ITMS members as part of an enhanced membership package. Further details of this are available at the ITMS Membership web page.

Volume 30 - Table of Contents

• Raab, Joseph Quinn. "Introduction: From Graduate School to Gethsemani – A Pilgrimage of Prophecy and Prayer." 7-16.

• Merton, Thomas. "Letters to Pat" edited with an Introduction by Paul M. Pearson. 17-28.

• Calati, Benedetto. "Thomas Merton: Gift of God for the Monks of Our Time" translated and annotated with an Introduction by Donald Grayston. 29-40.

• Coady, Mary Frances. "'A Fire That Burns': Thomas Merton, Catherine de Hueck Doherty and the Story of The Secular Journal." 41-53.

• Scruggs, Ryan L. "The 'One Merciful Event': Thomas Merton on Anselm's Cur Deus Homo." 54-77.

• Horan, Daniel P, OFM. "Kyrie Eleison: Mercy at the Heart of Thomas Merton's Theology of Revelation." 78-87.

• Golemboski, David. "A Mysterious, Unaccountable Mixture of Good and Evil: Thomas Merton on Cooperation and Complicity." 88-101.

• Greeley, June-Ann. "The Mercy of God: Mary as a Mercy for Humanity and as the Mediatrix of Salvation." 102-116.

• Serrán-Pagán y Fuentes, Cristóbal. "Divine Mercy in Thomas Merton and St. John of the Cross: Encountering the Dark Nights in the Human Soul." 117-130.

• Oyer, Gordon. "Thomas Merton and the 'Pessimism' of Jacques Ellul." 131-144.

• Plekon, Michael. "God's Mercy and Foolish Love: Thomas Merton and Paul Evdokimov." 145-155.

• Copeland, M. Shawn. "The Watchmen and the Witnesses: Thomas Merton, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Exercise of the Prophetic." 156-170.

• Fici, Christopher. "'Larger, Freer, and More Loving': Confronting and Healing the Infection of Whiteness with Thomas Merton and James Baldwin." 171-183.

• Whalen, Robert Weldon. "Thomas Merton and John Coltrane: Jazz and the Mercy beyond Being." 184-203.

• Kehoe, Deborah Pope. "Five Ways of Looking at a Monk: A Bibliographic Review of 2016." 204-220.

• Allard, John, OP. Rev. of The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 8 by Thomas Merton, edited by Patrick F. O’Connell. 221-228.

• O’Connell, Patrick F. Rev. of Thomas Merton on Monastic Spirituality; Thomas Merton on Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; Thomas Merton on Desert Spirituality (CDs). 228-235.

• Surat, Maria. Rev. of The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers by Jim Forest. 235-240.

• Greeley, June-Ann. Rev. of Thomas Merton and the Celts: A New World Opening Up by Monica Weis, SSJ. 240-245.

• O’Connell, Patrick F. Rev. of Thomas Merton’s Poetics of Self-Dissolution by Sonia Petisco. 246-253.

• Scruggs, Ryan L. Rev. of Merton and the Protestant Tradition by William Oliver Paulsell. 253-265.

• Matthews, Gray. Rev. of A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey by Matthew Fox. 265-267.

• Gibson, Lisette N. Rev. of Thomas Merton and the Counterculture: A Golden String by Ron Dart. 267-272.

• Gardner, Fiona. Rev. of The Rising Importance of Thomas Merton’s Spiritual Legacy by Kenneth Bragan. 272-274.

• Quenon, Paul, OCSO. Rev. of Merton’s Abbot: The Life and Times of Dom James Fox by F. Dean Lucas. 274-278.

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The Merton Annual publishes articles about Thomas Merton and about related matters of major concern to his life and work. Its purpose is to enhance Merton's reputation as a writer and monk, to continue to develop his message for our times, and to provide a regular outlet for substantial Merton-related scholarship. The Merton Annual includes as regular features reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished, or obscurely published Merton materials, photographs, and art. Essays about related literary and spiritual matters will also be considered.

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