The Merton Annual Volume 17 – The Global Landscape, Place, and the Particular

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“These ten scholarly essays were refereed and chosen as the most representative pieces…to examine Merton’s paradoxical love of place. They often simultaneously manifest a desire for and glimpses of the transcendence of place. Necessary detachment, Merton teaches us, allows then a development and a widening in spirit, yet a spirit always still rooted in the particular. Thomas Merton’s developing global concerns and his definite disappointment with cultures which are destructive of the particulars of any place, or person, is clearly a recurrent passion revealed in these essays.” From the Introduction by Victor A. Kramer

The Merton Annual publishes articles about Thomas Merton and about related matters of major concern to his life and work. Its purpose is to enhance Merton’s reputation as a writer and monk, to continue to develop his message for our times, and to provide a regular outlet for substantial Merton-related scholarship. The Merton Annual includes as regular features, reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished or obscurely published Merton materials, photographs and art. Essays about related literary and spiritual matters are also considered.

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Categories: General Thomas Merton Books, The Merton Annual, Thomas Merton Series

Year: 2004
ISBN: 9781887752773
Pages: 376

Fons Vitae Publishing

The Merton Annual Volume 17 – The Global Landscape, Place, and the Particular

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The Merton Annual Volume 17 – The Global Landscape, Place, and the Particular

CONTENTS

Kramer, Victor A. “Introduction: A Simplicity of Wonder: Merton’s Honor for the Particular Extending Outward.” 7-13.

Burton, Patricia A. “Editorial Note Concerning Thomas Merton’s Peace in the Post-Christian Era.” 14-15.

Merton, Thomas. “Christian Perspectives in World Crisis.” 16-26.

Burton, Patricia A. “Forbidden Book: Thomas Merton’s Peace in the Post-Christian Era.” 27-57.

Szabo. Lynn. “Thomas Merton’s Sacred Landscapes: Perspectives from the Vancouver Conference.” 58-60.

Kehoe, Deborah R. “Early Reflections in a ‘Nothing Place’: Three Gethsemani Poems.” 61-75.

Stuart, Angus F. “The Geography of Solitude: Inner Space and the Sense of Place.” 76-87.

Matthews, Gray. “Reality as a Sacred Place: The Parallel Insights of Thomas Merton and Henry Bugbee.” 88-119.

Dart, Ron. “Thomas Merton and George Grant: Hawk’s Dream, Owl’s Insight.” 120-136.

Kaplan, Edward K. “‘A Humanly Impoverished Thirst for Light’: Thomas Merton’s Receptivity to the Feminine, to Judaism, and to Religious Pluralism.” 137-152.

Leigh, David, S.J. “Firewatch in the Belly of the Whale: Imagery of Fire, Water and Place in The Sign of Jonas.” 153-165.

Bludworth, Patrick. “Desert Fathers and Asian Masters: Thomas Merton’s Outlaw Lineage.” 166-194.

Raab, Joseph Q. “Madhyamika and Dharmakaya: Some Notes on Thomas Merton’s Epiphany at Polonnaruwa.” 195-205.

Burridge, Kenelm. “Merton, Cargo Cults and Lograire.” 206-215.

Dekar, Paul. “What the Machine Produces and What the Machine Destroys: Merton on Technology.” 216-234.

Kramer, Victor A. “‘A Very Disciplined Person’ From Nelson County: An Interview with Canon A. M. Donald Allchin about Merton.” 235-255.

Belcastro, David Joseph. “An Obscure Theology Misread: 2003 Bibliographic Review.” 256-285.

Burton, Patricia A. “Index to The Merton Annual, Volume 1-16.” 286-340.

Söring, Jens. Rev. of The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation by Thomas Merton. 341-343.

Foreman, Mary. Rev. of Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers by Thomas Merton. 343-345.

Crider, Glenn. Rev. of The Vision of Thomas Merton edited by Patrick F. O’Connell. 345-348.

O’Connell, Patrick F. Rev. of Seek the Silences with Thomas Merton: Reflections on Identity, Community and Transformative Action by Charles R. Ringma. 348-352.

Grateful acknowledgement is expressed to the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University for permission to reproduce the calligraphy of Thomas Merton for the cover artwork.

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