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Bookmark or Share- The four Thomas Merton books you have to read - America MagazineMy mind has been occupied by Thomas Merton a lot lately. I wrote a book about his life, Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life, Teachings, and Practices, which was published on May 18.
- Thomas Merton Overview - Bellarmine UniversityA Brief Overview of Thomas Merton’s Writings and Spirituality. Thomas Merton (1915-1968), a Cistercian [“Trappist”] monk of Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, arrived to enter the monastery located near Bardstown, Kentucky on December 10, 1941. He had boarded an early morning train in New York State and arrived late that night at Gethsemani in ...
- Thomas Merton: the hermit who never was, his young lover and ...Merton was “a destroyed person” because of his failure to marry Margie, according to John Dear, in his study of Thomas Merton Peacemaker, in 1968, the “brutal year” of the Tet Offensive ...
- Thomas Merton CenterThe Thomas Merton Center is the official repository of Merton's artistic estate, which includes over thirteen hundred photographs and nine hundred drawings in addition to his writing. The Center archives more than fifty thousand Merton-related materials. The Thomas Merton Center is currently open Monday-Friday, 9am - 4pm.
- Thomas Merton | Poetry FoundationThomas Merton. 1915–1968. Photograph of Thomas Merton by John Howard Griffin. Used with permission of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. A monk who lived in isolation for several years, and one of the most well-known Catholic writers of the twentieth century, Thomas James Merton was a prolific poet, religious writer, and ...
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