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includes as regular features reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished, or obscurely published, Merton materials, photographs and art.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 34.   Volumes 18 - 33 may also be ordered from the Merton Center - contact merton@bellarmine.edu for further information or go to: http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/annualavailable.aspx.   Volume 34 of The Merton Annual is now available and Volume 35 is due for publication in Spring 2023. 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 34 - Table of Contents

• Kehoe, Deborah Pope. "Introduction: The Many Faces of the Stranger." 7-12.

• Merton, Thomas. "On Remembering Monsieur Delmas" edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O'Connell. 13-24.

• Thurston, Bonnie. "The 'Inward Stranger': Challenge, Coordinates, Consequences." 25-37.

• Prevot, Andrew. "Contemplation in Times of Crisis." 38-53.

• Oyer, Gordon. "Thomas Merton's Path toward Writing on Racial Concerns." 54-77.

• Higgins, Michael W. "Après Kamloops, le Déluge: Institutional Church, Indigenous Oppression and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition." 78-91.  

• Pramuk, Christopher. "'The Grey Face of the Other': Sparks of the Divine in a Toppling World." 92-106.

• Hall, Gary P. "Up Close and Particular: Remembering Herman Hanekamp and Merton's Other Insights into Loving Strangers." 107-119.

• Robinson, James. "'The Age of Rosemarys': Thomas Merton's Engagement with Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Haughton." 120-128.

• Marshell, John. "Unpacking the 'Eastern Thing' of Thomas Merton." 129-151.

• Stout, Huili S. "Thomas Merton and the Difficulty of Interreligious Dialogue." 152-171.

• O'Connell, Patrick F. "Merton's Strange Archipelago: Poetic Responses to a Prosaic Journey." 172-194.

• Whalen, Robert. "Noir, Hip, Beat, Cool: Thomas Merton and the Postwar, Trans-Atlantic, Existentialist Avant-Garde." 195-204.

• Herron, Fred. "Are We There Yet? Thomas Merton as Experience, Text and Event." 205-218.

• Kehoe, Deborah Pope. "Extending the Frontier: A Bibliographic Review of 2020." 219-231.

• Vale, Peter. Rev. of A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture: Novitiate Conferences on Scripture and Liturgy 1 [Full Text] by Thomas Merton, edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O'Connell . 232-235.

• Mahon, J. Patrick. Rev. of Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton [Full Text] edited by Paul M. Pearson. 235-239.

• McNary-Zak, Bernadette. Rev. of Shaped by the End You Live For: Thomas Merton's Monastic Spirituality [Full Text] by Bonnie Thurston. 239-242.

• Caldwell, Tony. Rev. of Authenticity, Passion, and Advocacy: Approaching Adolescent Spirituality from the Life and Wisdom of Thomas Merton [Full Text] by Thomas E. Malewitz. 242-245.

• O'Connell, Patrick F. Rev. of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and the Greatest Commandment: Radical Love in Times of Crisis [Full Text] by Julie Leininger Pycior. 245-254.

• McGregor, Michael N. Rev. of Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: A Memoir [Full Text] by Jim Forest. 254-259.

• Sniegocki, John. Rev. of Advancing Nonviolence and Just Peace in the Church and the World [Full Text] edited by Rose Marie Berger, Ken Butigan, Judy Coode and Marie Dennis. 259-265.

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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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