The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

- a growing number of titles by and about Thomas Merton are now available in electronic format -

 

In the Valley of Wormwood:
Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age.

edited by
Patrick Hart, OCSO.

Available electronically

 

 

Merton & the Tao

edited by Cristóbal Serrán-Pagán.

 

 

 

Thomas Merton - Selected Essays

edited by Patrick F. O'Connell.

 

Available electronically

Out now in paperback

The Merton Annual - Volume 25

edited by David Belcastro and Joseph Raab.

 

 

 

Returning to Reality: Thomas Merton's Wisdom for a Technological World

Phillip M. Thompson.

Available electronically

 

 

Thomas Merton: The Exquisite Risk of Love

by Robert G. Waldron.

 

 

 

The Life of the Vows: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition 6

edited by Patrick F. O'Connell.

Available electronically

 

 

Thomas Merton on Christian Contemplation

edited by Paul M. Pearson.

Available electronically

 



Thomas Merton on Eastern Meditation

edited by Bonnie Thurston.
 

Available electronically
 

Thomas Merton and Therese Lentfoehr: The Story of a Friendship

by Robert Nugent, SDS.

Available electronically

 

A Silent Action: Engagements With Thomas Merton

by Rowan Williams.

 

Precious Thoughts: Daily Readings from the Correspondence of Thomas Merton

edited by Fiona Gardner.
 
 

Thomas Merton: Twentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Living

by Paul R. Dekar

Available electronically

 

 

The Making of a Saint:
A Psychological Study of the Life of Thomas Merton

by Kenneth Bragan.

 
 

The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton

by Monica Weis, SSJ

Available electronically

 

The Wounded Heart of Thomas Merton

by Robert Waldron.

 
 

Thomas Merton Contemplation and Political Action

by Mario I. Aguilar.

 

A Silence Speaks: Teilhard de Chardin, Yves Congar, John Courtney Murray, and Thomas Merton

by Robert Nugent.

 
 

Thomas Merton and Latin America: A Consonance of Voices

by Malgorzata Poks.

 

A Retreat with Thomas Merton

by Esther de Waal.

 
 

Monastic Observances: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition 5

edited by Patrick F. O'Connell.

Available electronically

Thomas Merton - A Life in Letters

edited by William H. Shannon and Christine M. Bochen.

 

Hidden in the Same Mystery: Thomas Merton and Loretto
 

edited by Bonnie Thurston.

The Merton Annual - Volume 22

edited by David Belcastro and Gray Matthews.

Thomas Merton: Social Critic
 

by James Baker.

15 Days of Prayer with Thomas Merton

by Andre Gozier.

Available electronically

Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton

by Christopher Pramuk.


Available electronically

Spiritual Masters for All Seasons

by Michael Ford.

Professional Morality and Guilty Bystanding: Mertons Conjectures and the Value of Work
 

by Barry L. Padgett.

 

Beneath the Mask of Holiness: Thomas Merton and the Forbidden Love Affair that Set Him Free

by Mark Shaw.

  

The Rule of Saint Benedict: Initiation into Monastic Tradition 4
 

edited by Patrick F. O'Connell.

 

Compassionate Fire: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Catherine De Hueck Doherty

edited by Robert Wild.

  
The Voice of the Stranger: Three Papers and a Homily from the Seventh General Meeting and Conference of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Published by the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

 

Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton

by Jim Forest. Revised Edition. 

A Meeting of Angels: The Correspondence of Thomas Merton and Edward Deming and Faith Andrews
 

edited by Paul M. Pearson.

Survival or Prophecy? The Correspondence of Jean Leclercq and Thomas Merton

edited by Patrick Hart, OCSO.

 

 

Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton
Book and DVD

by Morgan Atkinson.

Thomas Merton: Hermit at the Heart of Things

by J. S. Porter.

Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters, The Essential Collection.

by Thomas Merton, edited by William H. Shannon and Christine M. Bochen.

Seeds of Hope: Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Message.

edited by Fernando Beltrán Llavador and Paul M. Pearson.

More Than Silence: A Bibliography of Thomas Merton.

by Patricia A. Burton.

The Merton Annual - Volume 20.

An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition, 3.

by Thomas Merton, edited by Patrick F. O'Connell.

Thomas Merton: Master of Attention.

by Robert Waldron.

 

Choosing to Love the World.

by Thomas Merton, compiled by Jonathan Montaldo.

 

Thomas Merton: In My Own Words.

Pax Intrantibus: A Meditation on the Poetry of Thomas Merton.

by Frederick Smock.

The Merton Annual - Volume 19.

 

A Book of Hours.

by Thomas Merton, edited by Kathleen Deignan.

Available electronically

 

Signs of Peace: The Interfaith Letters of Thomas Merton.

by William Apel.

Tom Merton: A Personal Biography.

by Joan McDonald..

 

Beyond the Shadow and the Disguise: Three Essays on Thomas Merton.
Published by the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

 

Becoming Who You Are:

Insights on the True Self from Thomas Merton And Other Saints.

by James Martin, S.J.

Available electronically

Passion for Peace: The Struggle for Non-Violence. (abridged edition)

by Thomas Merton.

 

Merton and Friends:

A Joint Biography of Thomas Merton, Robert Lax and Edward Rice.

by James Harford.

 

An Invitation to the Contemplative Life: Thomas Merton.

by Thomas Merton, compiled by Wayne Simsic.

 

Cold War Letters.

by Thomas Merton.

Soul Searching:

The Journey of Thomas Merton.

by Morgan Atkinson.

(DVD)

Pre-Benedictine Monasticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition.

by Thomas Merton.

Lent and Easter Wisdom from Thomas Merton.

by Thomas Merton, compiled by Jonathan Montaldo.

Echoing Silence:

Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing.

by Thomas Merton, edited by Robert Inchausti.

 

Merton and Buddhism:

Wisdom, Emptiness and Everyday Mind.

edited by Bonnie Thurston.

Making Peace in the Post-Christian Era: Thomas Merton's Challenge to the 'War on Terror.'

Sweet Irrational Worship: Niles-Merton Songs.

by Thomas Merton, performed by Chad Runyon and Jacqueline Chew. (CD)

 

The Seven Storey Mountain.

by Thomas Merton, read by Sidney Lanier.

(CD)

Across the Rim of Chaos:

Thomas Merton's Prophetic Vision.

 

Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton.

by Roger Lipsey.

The Merton Annual - Volume 18.

The Pocket Thomas Merton.

edited  by Robert Inchausti.

 

May Crowning, Mass, And Merton: And Other Reasons I Love Being Catholic.

by Liz Kelly.

Thomas Merton's Gethsemani: Landscapes of Paradise.

by Harry L. Hinkle and Monica Weis.

Available electronically

In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems.

by Thomas Merton, edited with an introduction by Lynn Szabo.

 

Cassian and the Fathers:

Initiation into the Monastic Tradition.

by Thomas Merton, edited by Patrick F. O'Connell.

Thomas Merton: An Introduction.

by William H. Shannon.

 

Love Burning in the Soul :

The Story of Christian Mystics from Saint Paul to Thomas Merton.

by James Harpur.

Listening to Islam:

With Thomas Merton, Sayyid Qutb, Kenneth Cragg And Ziauddin Sardar: Praise, Reason And Reflection.

by John Watson.

No Abiding Place:

Thomas Merton and the Search for God.

by Fred Herron.

Thomas Merton : I Have Seen What I Was Looking For, Selected Spiritual Writings.

edited by M. Basil Pennington.

Engaging the World with Merton: On Retreat in Tom's Hermitage.

by M. Basil Pennington.

A Year With Thomas Merton:

Daily Meditations From His Journals

Compiled by Jonathan Montaldo

Available electronically

Merton: A Film Biography

DVD Version

by Paul Wilkes

Peace In The Post-Christian Era.

by Thomas Merton, edited by Patricia A. Burton.

Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the ShakersSeeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers.

Edited and Introduced by Paul M Pearson.

Encounters with Merton.

by Henri Nouwen.

 

Gethsemani.

by Morgan Atkinson.

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage:
Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy and Dorothy Day.

by Paul Elie.

When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature.

by Thomas Merton; edited by Kathleen Deignan.

Available electronically

Merton and Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart.

edited by Bernadette Dieker and Jonathan Montaldo.

The Inner Experience : Notes on Contemplation.

by Thomas Merton; edited by William H. Shannon.

New Seeds of Contemplation.

by Thomas Merton.

Merton and Judaism:

Holiness in Words.

Edited by Beatrice Bruteau.

Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh: Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization.

by Robert H. King.

Merton's Palace of Nowhere.

by James Finley.

Available electronically

The Vision of Thomas Merton.

edited by Patrick F. O'Connell.

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