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Reviews of:

Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton vol. 2 1941-1945.

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01Run to the Mountain: the Story of a Vocation and Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and WriterThese volumes are beautifully produced. Simply to hold and look at them seems to confirm theEveritt, Gabriel, OSB Anglican Theological Review 79.1 (Winter 1997): 92-95. Gabriel Everitt OSB.
1997
02Prose into prayer: Merton in his journalsThe Thomas Merton revealed in these journals is the quintessentially restless American, everCarr, Anne E. Christian Century 113.18 (22-29 May 1996): 570-573. Anne Carr
1996
03Five Volumes & CountingWriting to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns 'Lack an imagePrusak, Bernard G. Commonweal 124.15 (12 September 1997): 36-37. Bernard G. Prusak
1997
04Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas merton, Volume Two 1941-Entering the Silence details Thomas Merton's growth as a gifted writer and teacher and in doing soGriffin, John Howard Journal of Religion and Health 35.2 (summer 1996): 174-176. John Howard Griffin
1996
05Merton, ThomasIn this second of a projected seven-volume series of Merton's journals, Montaldo, an adviser to theCarrigan, Henry Library Journal 121.4 (1 March 1996): 84. Henry Carrigan
1996
06Merton's Journal reflect on nearly everythingThe first of these journals records the thoughts, feelings and observations of the young ThomasThomson, Clarence National Catholic Reporter 32.19 (8 March 1996): 14. Clarence Thomson
1996
07Book explores inward journey of Thomas Merton ; How a one-time atheist found religionTo judge by what is stocked in many bookstores, the religion books category grows ever broader,Niebuhr, Gustav Patriot Ledger [Quincy MA] (23 March 1996): 46. Gustav Niebuhr
1996
08Thomas MertonAptly titled, this second volume of Merton's journals shows him entering more deeply into theChen, Sheryl Frances, OCSO Cistercian Studies Quarterly 33.1 (1998): 87-90. Sheryl Frances Chen OCSO
1998
09Kentucky MysticThe Archbishop is here in a sleek new monster of a Buick -- a streamlined Vatican on wheels." ThusCrews, Clyde F. Courier Journal [Louisville] (25 February 1996): D4. Clyde F. Crews.
1996
10Moonlight in the soulIn 1968 the vibrant life of Thomas Merton -- Trappist monk, gifted spiritual teacher, writer, artistBrown, Kathy Lexington Herald-Leader (14 April 1996): D4. Kathy Brown
1996
11Intimate Thoughts RevisitedThis second volume in the series of Thomas Merton's unexpurgated diaries is a book full of gossip,Gervais, Mary Windsor Star (17 February 1996): E4. Mary Gervais
1996
12 To love onself perfectly, Merton writes in an entry near the end of this volume, is to disappear.Schroeder, Steve Booklist [Chicago, IL] 92.12 (15 February 1996): 967.
1996
13The Uncensored MertonOne March, not long after we were married, my wife put on her birthday wish-listJones, Timothy Books & Culture: A Christian Review [London]6.6 (Nov.-Dec. 2000): 25-31.
2000
14The Young Monk's Lenten PuddingThis second volume of Thomas Merton'sFurlong, Monica Times Literary Supplement [London] 4868 (July 19 1996): 30.
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ANNUAL Jonathon Montaldo's editing of volume two of Merton's journals reflects the monastic virtue ofGrote, Jim Merton Annual 10: 326-330 [online].
http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/10/GroteRevES326-330.pdf
1997
JOURNALA Mirror of My Own Character and ConscienceIn 1967 Thomas Merton organised the setting up of a Legacy Trust to look afterPearson, Paul M. Merton Journal [UK] 3.2 (Advent 1996): 59-63.
http://www.thomasmertonsociety.org/Journal/03/3-2Pearson.pdf
1996
SEASONALOuter and Inner LandscapesI have been told that all of our history is written on the "walls" inside us--our upbringing andCassani, Genevieve, SSND Merton Seasonal 21:1 (Spring 1996): 23-25.
http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/21/21-1CassaniRevES.pdf
1996