The Merton Annual

by Kilcourse, George; Kramer, Victor A.; Downey, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780814622537
• ISBN10: 0814622534
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Liturgical Pr

Summary

The Merton Annual began in 1998 as a vehicle for publishing extended monographs related to Thomas Merton, including his contributions to letters; his monastic, ecumenical, and social concerns; and his importance as a writer, artist, and monk. The scholarly essays presented in this latest volume reveal Merton's developing global concerns and his disappointment with the destructive forces of certain cultures. An excerpt from his previously unpublished manuscript "Peace and the Post Christian Era" is also included.

Table of Contents

Introduction: News of a More Complex Merton Industry	ix
George A. Kilcourse, Jr.
He Is Risen	1	(7)
Thomas Merton
Merton Lecture, Columbia University, November 15, 1995	8	(13)
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
Harvesting New Fruits: Merton's ``Message to Poets''	21	(13)
Lawrence S. Cunningham
Merton and the American Romantics Appendix: Letter from Robert Lax to Ross Labrie	34	(21)
Ross Labrie
Out of the Shadows: Merton's Rhetoric of Revelation	55	(19)
Christopher C. Burnham
Thomas Merton in Search of His Heart: The Autobiographical Impulse of Merton's Bonaventure Novels	74	(16)
Paul M. Pearson
``The Whole World . . . Has Appeared as a Transparent Manifestation of the Love of God'': Portents of Merton as Eco-Theologian	90	(28)
Dennis Patrick O'Hara
Thomas Merton and Confucian Rites: ``The Fig Leaf for the Paradise Condition''	118	(24)
John Wu, Jr.
Thomas Merton and Zen	142	(10)
Robert Faricy
``Teaching Is Candy'': Merton as Teacher at Columbia and Bonaventure	152	(18)
Thomas Del Prete
The Abbey Centre for the Study of Ethics and Culture Conference: To Develop a Just Peacemaking Theory	170	(12)
Edward LeRoy Long, Jr.
Glen Stassen
Ronald Stone
A People's Movement as a Condition for the Development of a Just Peacemaking Theory	182	(11)
Duane K. Friesen
``The Great Honesty'': Remembering Thomas Merton An Interview with Abbot Timothy Kelly, O.C.S.O.	193	(28)
George A. Kilcourse, Jr.
Kimberly F. Baker
Editing the Journals of Thomas Merton A Postscript: Four Merton Journal Transcriptions Two Missing Sheets of Merton Journal Discovered	221	(16)
Patrick Hart
Posthumous Prolificacy: A Bibliographic Review Essay	237	(15)
Michael Downey
REVIEWS
At Home in the World	252	(3)
Thomas Merton
Rosemary Radford Ruether
Clare Ronzani
Passion for Peace: The Social Essays	255	(9)
Richard D. Parry
Thomas Merton
The Merton Tapes: Sixth Release of Lectures	264	(3)
Thomas Collins
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton Remembered: Dialogues with Various People Who Knew Him	267	(2)
Dewey Weiss Kramer
Michael Toms
Thomas Merton, My Brother: His Journey to Freedom, Compassion, and Final Integration	269	(3)
Raymond Wilkie
M. Basil Pennington
Becoming a Modern Contemplative: A Psychospiritual Model for Personal Growth	272	(2)
Paul Wise
Richard B. Patterson
Why Not Be a Mystic?	274	(3)
Frank X. Tuoti
Thomas Merton and Chinese Wisdom	277	(1)
Roger Corless
Cyrus Lee
What We Can Learn from the East	277	(3)
Beatrice Bruteau
The Foundations of Mysticism: Origins to the Fifth Century and The Growth of Mysticism: Gregory the Great Through the Twelfth Century	280	(36)
Paul Lachance
Bernard McGinn
A Review Symposium of Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation
Patrick Hart
Symposium Participants:
Patrick O'Connell	288	(10)
William H. Shannon	298	(16)
David A. King	314	(2)
Editor's Response
Contributors	316	(3)
Index	319