| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | Disputed Questions | In this Collection of random essays, provocative Father Louis, OCSO, has some trenchant things to | Patricia Barrett, RSCJ |
America 104 (21 January 1961). Patricia Barrett, RSCJ
| 1961 |
| 02 | Disputed Questions | This is a selection of essays on various topics. The longest piece is devoted to "The Pasternak | |
Ave Maria (11 February 1961).
| 1961 |
| 03 | Disputed Questions | "Meant to stimulate thought and to awaken some degree of spiritual awareness," this book is made up | Schoeck, R.J. |
Ave Maria 93 (4 March 1961): 27.. R.J. Schoeck
| 1961 |
| 04 | Disputed Questions | Father Thomas Merton, who has gained literary fame, emphasizes the relation of the individual to | |
Buffalo Evening News (9 December 1961). P.A.L.
| 1961 |
| 05 | Disputed Questions | The title of this latest book by America's most amazing monk has scholastic connotation which are | Keating, John J., CSP |
Catholic World 192 (November 1960): 115-116, John J. Keating CSP
| 1960 |
| 06 | Disputed Questions | This book by the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain" consists of a series of essays, the | Harding, Alice M. |
Charleston news SC (18 December 1960). Alice M. Harding
| 1960 |
| 07 | Father Merton On Pasternak | Father Merton, perhaps the most urbane Roman Catholic essayist in the United States, discourses on | Conroy, Jack |
Chicago Sun Times (29 January 1961). Jack Conroy
| 1961 |
| 08 | Too Complacent U.S. Dismays Monk Merton | Thomas Merton, the young man who gave up a harried life in new York City for monastery serenity in | Barensfield, Thomas |
Cleveland Plain Dealer (23 October 1960). Thomas Barensfield
| 1960 |
| 09 | Disputed Question, By Thomas Merton. Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, $3.95 | Even on such explosive questions as contemporary Christian art, Father Merton writes with charity as | |
Commonweal (24 February 1961).
| 1961 |
| 10 | Trappist Attacks Lack of Personal Thinking | As in the past, our modern way of life is under attack by Mertens, a Trappist monk for some two | Sala, Peter |
Courier-Express Buffalo, NY (9 October 1960). Peter Sala
| 1960 |
| 11 | Stimulant For Thought | This is the latest volume by Kentucky's Trappist monk, Thomas Merton. It is nonfiction, and the | Habich, William |
Courier Journal Louisville, KY (23 October 1960). William Habich
| 1960 |
| 12 | Disputed Questions | This is a religious book, certainly; yet, in another real sense, it is not. Its scope and | Lentfoehr, Therese, SDS |
Critic 19 (December-January 1960-1961): 30-31. Sister M. Therese SDS
| no-year |
| 13 | Priest Puts Thoughts in Essay Form | Father Merton, author of "Seven Storey Mountain," has written another book which pursues somewhat | Mulholland, Charles |
Ft. Worth Star (6 November 1960). Charles Mulholland
| 1960 |
| 14 | Essays by a Monk | The problem of the person and his relation to the social organization is the main theme running | |
News Detroit MI (6 November 1960).
| 1960 |
| 15 | Thomas Merton Gives Opinions | The longest essay in this collection, dedicated to the memory of Boris Pasternak, is an evaluation | Florence M. Manny |
News Sentinel Ft. Wayne, IN (24 December 1960). Florence M. Manny
| 1960 |
| 16 | | A new book by Thomas Merton, "Disputed Questions," will be published by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy on | |
NY Times (14 September 1960).
| 1960 |
| 17 | Essays Emphasize Personalism | Whether Thomas Merton writes about Boris Pasternak or a Renaissance hermit he applies as touchstone | Nolan, James W. |
New Orleans Picayune (5 February 1961). James W. Nolan
| 1961 |
| 18 | Book Reviews: Cenobite and Society | This is indeed an extraordinary book, even by so unusual a monk as Thomas Merton, whom we know | Lentfoehr, Therese, SDS |
Renascence 14 (Winter 1962): 102-105. Sister Therese
| 1962 |
| 19 | A Search Beyond the Self | In 1953 the author of "Disputed Questions" wrote on the closing pages of his fourth book, "The Sign | Michelfelder, William |
Saturday Review [NY City] 43 (24 September 1960). William Michelfelder
| 1960 |
| 20 | Essays on Problems of Current Concern | Certainly the best known Catholic writer in America today is Thomas Merton, who is Father Louis of | Thomas, Alma |
Savannah News, GA (9 October 1960). Alma Thomas
| 1960 |
| 21 | Disputed Questions | It would by interesting to know whether Thomas Merton will be remembered as a sociological | Kirvan, John J., CSP |
Sign 40 (January 1961): 60. John J. Kirvan, CSP
| 1961 |
| 22 | Disputed Questions | When Fr. Merton entered the isolation of a contemplative monastery twenty years ago he was already | |
Virginia Kirkus Bulletin 28 (15 September 1960): 833.
| 1960 |
| 23 | Disputed Questions | *This is a collection of essays by the distinguished author on various subjects, related loosely | |
Virginia Kirkus Bulletin (1 October 1960).
| 1960 |
| 24 | Provocative Readin | Is modern man in America likely to be too conformist? Is his inclination toward passivity? Does our | Rushton, Frederick L. |
Worcester Telegram, Mass (5 February 1961). Frederick L. Rushton. 2 copies
| 1961 |
| 25 | Book Reviews | This might well be sub-dubbed "The Anti-Organization Man," but for the readers who might wonder what | Kannapell, Martha |
| 1960 |
| 26 | Disputed Questions | In Disputed Questions Merton turns to have a look at the world from which his journey has led him. | |
Review for Religious 21.5 (September 1962): 483
| 1962 |
| 27 | In Defense of Solitude | Convinced that even in America "the world has moved a very long way towards conformism and passivity | Conover, Charles Eugene |
Christian Century 78 (18 January 1961): 84-85. Charles Eugene Conover.
| 1961 |
| 28 | Thinking Out Loud | This is a book of essays in which the author thinks out loud on some of the disputed and | James, Bruno S. |
Tablet [London] (8 July 1961): 659-60.
| 1961 |
| 29 | | A look at the table of contents will give us an idea of the diveristy of the social and religious | Peisson, Henry |
Catholic World 203(June 1966) :187-188.
| 1966 |
| 30 | | Columns of nonsense and a certain amount of sense in popular avant garde pages, have been written | |
Catholic Library World 32 (November 1960) : 141-142.
| 1960 |
| 31 | | Over the years of his brief monastic life the late Thomas Merton | Devlin, Vianney M., OFM |
The Cord (September 1978): 252-256.
| 1978. |