| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | Suggestions from M. Schneiders, IHM | True gift-giving is always a transaction between two spirits, but the giving of a book introduces a | Schneiders, Sandra M., IHM |
America 159.14 (12 November 1988): 387. Sandra M. Schneiders IHM
| 1988 |
| 02 | Merton, Thomas | During the years 1964-65, Merton sought, and was finally given, permission to live alone in his | Lichtenberg, Carol J. |
Library Journal 113.13 (August 1988): 164. Carol J. Lichtenberg
| 1988 |
| 03 | News of the Thomas Merton Industry | During 1988-89, innumerable twentieth anniversary events commemorated the death of Thomas Merton | Kilcourse, George A. |
Mid-Stream 30.1 (January 1991): 35-49. George Kilcourse
| 1991 |
| 04 | A Vow of Conversation | I have always numbered The Sign of Jonas among my favorite Merton Books. It is a collection of | Leonard, Billy Jim |
Review and Expositor 87.2 (Spring 1990): 357-358. Billy Jim Leonard
| 1990 |
| 05 | A Vow of Conversation: Journal 1964-1965 by Thomas Merton: Naomi Burton Stone | Thomas Merton has been a part of my life since the early fifties, when I read Seeds of Contemplation | LaHood, Marvin J. |
World Literature Today 63.2 (Spring 1989): 311-312. Marvin J. LaHood
| 1989 |
| 06 | Thomas Merton 20 years after his death | Dec. 10, 1968--20 years ago. Anyone who died on that day was in good company. In England, the | Finley, Mitch |
Our Sunday Visitor 77.33 (11 December 1988): 8.
| 1988 |
| 07 | | Poet, essayist, would-be activist, and Trappist monk, Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a man whose | Cole, Peter |
7 Days (12 October 1988).
| 1988 |
| 08 | Prayer and Christian Devotion | George E. Thompson, in a sermon published in the November/December 1988 issue of Pulpit | Condon, Denis |
Pulpit Digest 69.1 (October 1989): 77-78.
| 1989 |
| 09 | New Merton Journal Reveals Mature, Everyday Monk | Thomas Merton was the quintessential writer of journals. Many readers think those published | Finley, Mitch |
St. Anthony Messenger 96 (December 1988): 48.
| 1988 |
| 10 | Solitude is Joyful Sorrow | When Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, was published 40 years ago | Grohskopf, Bernice |
Plain Dealer [Cleveland] (20 October 1988): 5.
| 1988 |
| 11 | | Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of Gethsemani, wrote a series of journals before his tragic death in | Kocka, David |
Courier-Journal [Louisville] (11 September 1988): 17.
| 1988 |
| 12 | | The appeal of Thomas Merton as a spiritual guide is perenially with us. He is still welcomed some | Jagoe, Bede, OP |
Spirituality Today 41.1 (Spring 1989): 81-82.
| 1989 |
| 13 | A glimpse of Thomas Merton's last notes | Among the work left undone when Blaise Pascal died in 1662 was an "apology" for Christian religion. | Kirtland, Robert |
Blade [Toledo] (11 September 1988).
| 1988 |
| 14 | 'Hermit' author Merton tells of monastic lifestyle | Originally scheduled for publication in 1971, Thomas Merton's journals for 1964-65 temporarily | Lawrence, Larry |
Abilene Reporter-News (16 October 1988).
| 1988 |
| 15 | | Long-awaited journal by Thomas Merton--this one covering the two years leading up to his retirement | |
Kirkus Reviews (1 May 1988): 676.
| 1988 |
| 16 | The Sensual God | On July 5 in 1965, Thomas Merton wrote, "Enough is evident in this journal to destroy me forever." | Forest, James H. |
Other Side 26.1 (January-February 1990): 32-35.
| 1990 |
| 17 | Assessing the real cost of progress | Reading these two boooks in the space of a few days is like listening in on a conversation between | Bird, Merle |
Topeka Capital-Journal (16 April 1989): 7G.
| 1989 |
| 18 | | Thomas Merton died suddenly in 1968, he left behind, in the hands of his publisher, a manuscript | Cutrell, Dorothy |
Provident Book Finder (March-May 1989): 4.
| 1989 |
| 19 | | I looked at this title several times. Benedictine monks make five vows, one being a vow of | Williams, Joan, OCD |
Living Prayer 21.6 (November-December 1988): 61-62. Joan Williams OCD
| 1988 |
| 20 | A Merton feast of ideas and trivia | When you belong to the cult of Thomas Merton, as I do, the mere announcement of a new Merton | Supik, Wilma |
Record [Hackensack, NJ] 11 (12 August 1988): B8.
| 1988 |
| 21 | | Thomas Merton was a devotedly secular writer and intellectual who became a Catholic and then a | Stuttaford, Genevieve |
Publishers Weekly 233.23 (10 June 1988): 62.
| 1988 |
| 22 | | Only a small fraction of Merton's 15 journals have been published, so we might assume that this | Simsic, Wayne |
Spiritual Life 35.1 (Spring 1989): 48-49.
| 1989 |
| 23 | | 'It seems to me the most mature writing you have done,' so Naomi Burton Stone, the editor of this | Pearson, Paul M. |
Priests and People 4.4 (April 1990): 161.
| 1990 |
| 24 | | Merton's journal from 1964 to 1965--the period when he still was novice master at Gethsemani | McGinn-Moorer, Sheila E. |
Booklist [Chicago] 84.2 (August 1988): 1870-1871.
| 1988 |
| 25 | | "Enough is evident in this journal to destroy me forever" Thomas Merton | Forest, James H. |
[unpublished]
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| ANNUAL | | There are four major journals of Thomas Merton which precede A Vow of Conversation. | Padovano, Anthony T. |
Merton Annual 2: 320-323.
http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/2/PadovanoRevVC320-323.pdf
| 1989 |
| SEASONAL | A Critical Period in Merton's Life | In the Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton biographer Michael Mott wrote: "While making final | Fisher, James T. |
Merton Seasonal 13:4 (Fall 1988): 8-9.
http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/13/13-4FisherRevVC.pdf
| 1988 |
| SEASONAL | A Direct Glimpse of Merton | Finally, we are able to read an edition of the journals of Thomas Merton for 1964-1965 which he | McLaughlin, Thomas, OSB |
Merton Seasonal 13:4 (Fall 1988): 10-11.
http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/13/13-4McLaughlinRevVC.pdf
| 1988 |