Articles by:

Belcastro, David Joseph.

MERTON ANNUAL ARTICLES

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"2009 Bibliographic Review: Beneath the Habit of Holiness.”

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2010

“2010 Bibliographic Review: Fire Watch When the Web Goes Down.”

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24

2011

"2012 Bibliographic Review Essay: Thomas Merton, Escape Artist."

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26

2013

Rev. of A Course in Desert Spirituality: Fifteen Sessions with the Famous Trappist Monk by Thomas Merton, edited by Jon M. Sweeney.

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2020

"Czeslaw Milosz's Influence on Thomas Merton's 'Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude.'"

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7

1994

"Introduction: An International Centenary Celebration of Merton’s Vision of the World Redeemed by Christ."

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27

2014

"Introduction: Angular Clouds of Unknowing."

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2009

"Introduction: The Ineffable Desert and the City or What We Call Home."

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25

2012

"Merton and Camus on Christian Dialogue with a Postmodern World."

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10

1997

"An Obscure Theology Misread: 2003 Bibliographic Review."

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17

2004

"Praying the Questions: Merton of Times Square, Last of the Urban Hermits."

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2007

Rev. of Silence Speaks: Teilhard de Chardin, Yves Congar, John Courtney Murray, and Thomas Merton by Robert Nugent.

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25

2012

"Thomas Merton’s Conversatio Morum 2014 Bibliographic Review Essay."

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28

2015

"Thomas Merton's Revelation of Justice and Revolution of Love: Perspectives from the San Diego Conference."

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2006

"Voices from the Desert: Merton, Camus and Milosz."

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2012

"A Vow of Conversation: Past, Present & Past-Present Thomas Merton Bibliographic Review 2007."

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21

2008

Rev. of What I Am Living For: Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton, edited by Jon M. Sweeney.

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2019

MERTON SEASONAL ARTICLES

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"The Ascent to Truth: A Fifty-Year Retrospective."

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Issue 26:4

(Winter 2001)

"Canaries in the Mineshaft." Rev. of Thomas Merton and the Beats of the Northern Cascades by Ron Dart.

Issue 31:2

(Summer 2006)

"A Captivating Capstone." Rev. of Merton and Hinduism: The Yoga of the Heart edited by David M. Odorisio.

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Issue 47:1

(Spring 2022)

"Dear Beneficiaries of Merton’s Legacy: Presidential Address – ITMS Fourteenth General Meeting."

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Issue 40:3

(Fall 2015)

"A Life and a Work in Progress." Rev. of Reading Thomas Merton and Longing for God in Haiti: Learning Wisdom in the School of My Life by Gerard Thomas Straub.

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Issue 48:3

(Fall 2023)

“Merton and Camus on Silence as the Language of Resistance.”

Issue 38:3

(Fall 2013)

"A Message from the Horizon from Two Striving Towards Being."

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Issue 41:1

(Spring 2016)

"Models for Global Pilgrimage." Rev. of Mystics, Sages, and Saints: Archetypes of Spiritual Excellence [audio course] by Kenneth Rose.

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Issue 45:2

(Summer 2020)

"Reaping the Whirlwind." Rev. of Thomas Merton: Poet, Monk, Prophet edited by Paul M. Pearson, Danny Sullivan and Ian Thomson.

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Issue 24:4

(Winter 1999)

“Thomas Merton and Richard Rodriguez: A Conversation at the Edge of a Desert.”

Issue 44:1

(Spring 2019)

"The Trickster-Monk’s New Creation."

Issue 40:1

(Spring 2015)