The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University



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Thurston, Bonnie B.

MERTON ANNUAL ARTICLES

Title (link to volume)LinkVolYear
 "'The Best Retreat I Ever Made': Merton and the Contemplative Prioresses."
        
  14  
2001
Rev. of Buddhist Emptiness and Christian Trinity Edited by Roger Corless and Paul Knitter and A Taste of Water: Christianity Through Taoist-Christian Eyes by Chwen Jiuan A. Lee and Thomas G. Hand.
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  4  
1991
 "'An Entirely New Spiritual Reality': Thomas Merton on Life in Christ."
        
  27  
2014
Review Symposium of The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton by Monica Weis.
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  24  
2011
 "The 'Inward Stranger': Challenge, Coordinates, Consequences."
        
  34  
2021
Rev. of The Life of the Vows: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 6 by Thomas Merton edited by Patrick F. O’Connell.
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  26  
2013
 "Murdering Judas: Reconciling the Contemplative and the Poet in Thomas Merton."
        
  33  
2020
Rev. of Preview of the Asian Journey by Thomas Merton.
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  3  
1990
 "'A Ray of That Truth Which Enlightens All': Thomas Merton, Poetic Language and Inter-Religious Dialogue."
        
  22  
2009
 "'Rising Up Out of the Center': Thomas Merton on Prayer."
        
  20  
2007
Rev. of The Seven Storey Mountain and the Rest of the Story by Michael W. Higgins [DVDs/CDs].
        
  28  
2015
 "Zen Influence on Thomas Merton's View of the Self."
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  1  
1988
 

MERTON SEASONAL ARTICLES

Title (link to issue)LinkIssueYear
“‘An Absolute Duty to Rebel’: Thomas Merton, Religious Women and the Challenges of Vatican II.”
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 Issue 39:2 
 (Summer 2014) 
"Advent Comes to a Cistercian House." [poem]
        
 Issue 34:4 
 (Winter 2009) 
"The Christian Center of Thomas Merton's Thought."
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 Issue 27:4 
 (Winter 2002) 
“Enjoy, Ponder, Be Stunned.” Rev. of In the Valley of Wormwood: Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age by Thomas Merton, edited by Patrick Hart, OCSO.
        
 Issue 39:4 
 (Winter 2014) 
"Frameworks for Faithful Living." Rev. of Our Hearts are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir by Richard Lischer.
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 Issue 49:3 
 (Fall 2024) 
"'The Heresy of Individualism'."
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 Issue 18:3-4 
 (Summer-Fall 1993) 
“‘Hidden from Men in Glory’: Thomas Merton and St. Charbel Makhlouf.”
        
 Issue 37:1 
 (Spring 2012) 
"'I Never Had A Sister': Merton's Friendships with Women."
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 Issue 17:1 
 (Winter 1992) 
"'I Spoke Most of Prayer': Thomas Merton on the West Coast (September 11 - October 15, 1968)."
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 Issue 35:3 
 (Fall 2010) 
"Icon and/or Metaphor."
        
 Issue 40:1 
 (Spring 2015) 
"Islam in Alaska: Sufi Material in Thomas Merton in Alaska."
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 Issue 29:4 
 (Winter 2004) 
“A Link between Beings." Rev. of Tendrel: A Memoir of New York and the Buddhist Himalayas by Harold Talbott.
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 Issue 44:4 
 (Winter 2019) 
"Listening Deeply, Living Deeply." Rev. of Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh: Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization by Robert H. King.
        
 Issue 26:4 
 (Winter 2001) 
"Little Rule for a Minor Hermitage." [poem]
        
 Issue 33:1 
 (Spring 2008) 
"A Map of the Whole Territory." Rev. of More Than Silence: A Bibliography of Thomas Merton by Patricia A. Burton.
        
 Issue 33:4 
 (Winter 2008) 
"A Note on the Contemplative Vision of Thomas Merton's Poetry."
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 Issue 6:2 
 (Summer 1981) 
"The Rebel in Merton." Rev. of "Something of a Rebel:" Thomas Merton, His Life and Works - An Introduction by William H. Shannon.
        
 Issue 22:4 
 (Winter 1997) 
"Review of Criticism of Thomas Merton's Poetry."
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 Issue 9:2 
 (Summer 1984) 
“Sufi Musings and Meanderings." Rev. of Thomas Merton on Sufism [CDs], Introduction by Fr. Anthony Ciorra.
        
 Issue 37:4 
 (Winter 2012) 
"'The Most Hopeful and Living Kind of Message': An Introduction to Charles de Foucauld and Thomas Merton."
        
 Issue 42:2 
 (Summer 2017) 
"This Spiritual Light - This Vision." Rev. of Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton edited by Paul M. Pearson.
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 Issue 46:2 
 (Summer 2021) 
"Thomas Merton and Eastern Religions: A Bibliography."
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 Issue 15:3 
 (Summer 1990) 
"Thomas Merton and St. Paul."
        
 Issue 34:1 
 (Spring 2009) 
"Thomas Merton's Works and Days." Rev. of Merton Vade Macum: A Quick Reference Bibliographic Handbook by Patricia Burton.
        
 Issue 24:2 
 (Summer 1999) 
"The Tobin Tapes." Rev. of Prayer and Commitment in Thomas Merton and Prophesy and Commitment in Thomas Merton by Mary Luke Tobin, SL.
        
 Issue 16:3 
 (Summer 1991) 
"'The Tradition of Wisdom and Spirit': Wisdom in Thomas Merton's Mature Thought."
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 Issue 20:1 
 (Winter 1995) 
“Two Poems.” [poems]
        
 Issue 38:1 
 (Spring 2013) 
"Two Poems." [poem]
        
 Issue 24:4 
 (Winter 1999) 
"Well Done." [poem]
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 Issue 32:2 
 (Summer 2007) 
 

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