The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University



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O'Connell, Patrick F.

MERTON ANNUAL ARTICLES

Title (link to volume)LinkVolYear
 "‘A Way of Life Impregnated with Truth’: Did Thomas Merton Undervalue Confucianism?"
        
  28  
2015
 "Apocalypse Now? Thomas Merton as Post-War Poet."
        
  35  
2022
Rev. of Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of Faith [book and DVDs] by Robert Barron.
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  25  
2012
Rev. of Christian Spirituality: The Classics edited by Arthur Holder.
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  24  
2011
Rev. of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and the Greatest Commandment: Radical Love in Times of Crisis by Julie Leininger Pycior.
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  34  
2021
 "Editors Note to 'Vocations to the Lay Apostolate,' by Thomas Merton."
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  7  
1994
 "Eight Freedom Songs: Merton's Sequence of Liberation."
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  7  
1994
 "'The First Cistercian and the Greatest Trappist': Thomas Merton’s Poems on John the Baptist."
        
  26  
2013
 "The Geography of Solitude: Thomas Merton's 'Elias - Variations on a Theme'."
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  1  
1988
Rev. of Guard the Human Image for It Is the Image of God edited by Gary Hall and Detlev Cuntz.
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  33  
2020
Rev. of Hidden Holiness by Michael Plekon.
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  23  
2010
 "If Not for Luther? – Thomas Merton and Erasmus."
        
  33  
2020
 "Islands in the Stream: Thomas Merton's Poetry of the Early 1950s."
        
  22  
2009
 "Landscapes of Disaster: The War Poems of Thomas Merton."
        
  19  
2006
Rev. of Love Burning in the Soul: The Story of the Christian Mystics, from St. Paul to Thomas Merton by James Harpur.
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  19  
2006
Rev. of Medieval Monastic Movements; An Introduction to the Cistercian Order; Thomas Merton and St. Bernard of Clairvaux; St. Thomas Aquinas and “The Ways of God”; Thomas Merton on Contemplation [revised]; Thomas Merton on Sufism [revised] by Thomas Merton [CDs].
        
  28  
2015
Rev. of The Merton Prayer: An Exercise in Authenticity, by Stephen A. Denny.
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  36  
2023
 "Merton's Strange Archipelago: Poetic Responses to a Prosaic Journey."
        
  34  
2021
Rev. of The Monk’s Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966 by Robert Hudson.
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  32  
2019
Rev. of Mystics, Muslims, and Merton by Sidney H. Griffith [DVDs/CDs].
        
  27  
2014
Rev. of Mystics by William Harmless, SJ.
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  22  
2009
 "Nurture by Nature: Emblems of Stillness in a Season of Fury."
        
  21  
2008
Rev. of The Only Mind Worth Having: Thomas Merton and the Child Mind by Fiona Gardner.
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  29  
2016
Rev. of Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by Jay Tolson.
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  6  
1993
 "Pilgrimage, the Prophet, Persecutions and Perfume: East with Ibn Battūta and Thomas Merton."
        
  25  
2012
 "Redeeming the Time from Destruction."
        
  27  
2014
Review Symposium of Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation.
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  9  
1996
Rev. of Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand: Thomas Merton on Poetry; "God Speaks to Each of Us": The Poetry and Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke; Thomas Merton on William Faulkner and Classical Literature; "All the Living and the Dead": The Literature of James Joyce; Prayer and Growth in Christian Life; "Man to Man": A Message of Contemplatives to the World (1967); Living Contemplatively: Address to the Carmelite Sisters of Savannah (1967); The Search for Wholeness [CDs].
        
  27  
2014
Rev. of Seek the Silences with Thomas Merton: Reflections on Identity, Community and Transformative Action by Charles R. Ringma.
        
  17  
2004
 “'A Son of This Instant’: Thomas Merton and Ibn ‘Abbād of Ronda.”
        
  23  
2010
Rev. of The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton by Sophfronia Scott.
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  35  
2022
Rev. of Thomas Merton and Latin America: A Consonance of Voices by Malgorzata Poks.
        
  21  
2008
 “Thomas Merton and the 'Edenic Office of the Poet': Three Poems from The Tears of the Blind Lions."
        
  32  
2019
Rev. of Thomas Merton and the Education of the Whole Person by Thomas Del Prete.
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  4  
1991
Rev. of Thomas Merton on Augustine, Jerome, and Ambrose: The Philosophy of the Great Latin Fathers; Thomas Merton’s Great Sermons and Reflections; Thomas Merton on Literature: John Milton, T. S. Eliot, and Edwin Muir; Thomas Merton on William Faulkner. [CDs]
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  32  
2019
Rev. of Thomas Merton on Contemplation; Finding True Meaning and Beauty; Thomas Merton's Great Sermons; Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life; Thomas Merton on Sufism; Ways of Prayer: A Desert Father’s Wisdom; Thomas Merton on the 12 Degrees of Humility; Solitude and Togetherness; The Prophet’s Freedom [CDs].
        
  26  
2013
Rev. of Thomas Merton on Franz Kafka [CD].
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  33  
2020
Rev. of Thomas Merton on Monastic Spirituality; Thomas Merton on Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; Thomas Merton on Desert Spirituality (CDs).
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  30  
2017
Rev. of Thomas Merton’s Poetics of Self-Dissolution by Sonia Petisco.
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  30  
2017
 "Thomas Merton's Wake-Up Calls: Aubades and Monastic Dawn Poems from A Man in the Divided Sea."
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  12  
1999
 "Trappists, Working – Trappists, Praying: The Earliest Monastic Poetry of Thomas Merton.”
        
  29  
2016
Rev. of We Are All Poets Here: Thomas Merton’s 1968 Journey to Alaska by Kathleen Witkowska Tarr.
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  31  
2018
 "'What I Wear Is Pants': Monasticism as 'Lay' Spirituality in Merton's Later Life and Work."
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  10  
1997
Rev. of When Prophecy Still Had a Voice: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax edited by Arthur W. Biddle.
        
  14  
2001
Rev. of A Year With Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations From His Journals. Selected and Edited by Jonathan Montaldo.
        
  18  
2005
 

MERTON SEASONAL ARTICLES

Title (link to issue)LinkIssueYear
"'And Call it Macaronic': An Unpublished Early Poem of Thomas Merton."
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 Issue 21:1 
 (Spring 1996) 
"A Caravan for Merton." Rev. of The Thomas Merton Poems: A Caravan of Poems by J. S. Porter.
        
 Issue 14:3 
 (Summer 1989) 
“Editor's Note.”
        
 Issue 44:2 
 (Summer 2019) 
“A Final Testimony and Testament.” Rev. of How to Become a Christian Even If You Already Are One by William H. Shannon.
        
 Issue 37:2 
 (Summer 2012) 
"Franciscan Commentary on Thomas Merton." Rev. of Swimming in the Sun: Discovering the Lord's Prayer with Francis of Assisi and Thomas Merton by Albert Haase, OFM.
        
 Issue 19:2 
 (Spring 1994) 
"Grief Transfigured: Merton's Elegy on His Brother."
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 Issue 18:1 
 (Winter 1993) 
“An Introductory Note.”
        
 Issue 47:2 
 (Summer 2022) 
"Merton on the Eve of the Third Millennium."
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 Issue 22:3 
 (Fall 1997) 
"Remembering Lorca: Merton's Tribute to a Poetic
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 Issue 21:2 
 (Summer 1996) 
"Sunken Islands: Two and One-Fifth Unpublished Merton Poems."
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 Issue 12:2 
 (Spring 1987) 
"Thirty Poems after Fifty Years."
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 Issue 19:3 
 (Summer 1994) 
"Thomas Merton's Projected Anthology of Religious Poetry."
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 Issue 25:3 
 (Fall 2000) 
 

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