The Merton Annual Volume 23 – The Importance of Dialogue in a Fragmented World

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“Perhaps the best word to appear in the last century for [relating face to face] was the word dialogue. The prefix dia is significant: it means to go through the logos. One penetrates the conditions of communication to realize a deeper meaning, a deeper communion, at work through- not via – the words of conversation. This is what Thomas Merton understood in the last months of his life when he was so ‘convinced that communication in depth, across the lines that have hitherto divided religious and monastic traditions, is now not only possible and desirable, but most important for the destinies of Twentieth-Century Man.’ … The present volume of The Merton Annual stands as ample testimony that such dedicated labor and grace is at work today and will continue to illuminate our path throughout this century in the midst of all its technological wizardry.” Click here to read the full introduction by Gray Matthews.

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includes as regular features, reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished or obscurely published Merton materials, photographs and art.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: 2010
ISBN: 9781891785818
Pages: 332

Fons Vitae Publishing

The Merton Annual Volume 23 – The Importance of Dialogue in a Fragmented World

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The Merton Annual Volume 23 – The Importance of Dialogue in a Fragmented World

CONTENTS

Gray Matthews. “Introduction: Facing the Astonishing.” 7-12.

Thomas Merton. “Preface to Dom Denys Rutledge’s In Search of a Yogi.” 13-19.

James Conner, OCSO. “Thomas Merton – Final Integration Through Interreligious Dialogue.” 20-28.

Rachel Fell McDermott. “Why Zen Buddhism and Not Hinduism? The Asias of Thomas Merton’s Voyages East.” 29-46.

Judith Simmer-Brown. “The Heart Is the Common Ground: Thomas Merton and Chögyam Trungpa in Dialogue.” 47-58.

Fiona Gardner. “A Kind of Arduous and Unthanked Pioneering.” 59-66.

Tyson Anderson. “What Matters Is Clear.” 67-79.

Daniel P. Horan, OFM. “Striving Toward Authenticity: Merton’s ‘True Self’ and the Millennial Generation’s Search for Identity.” 80-89.

Joseph Quinn Raab. “Insights from the Inter-Contemplative Dialogue: Merton’s Three Meanings of ‘God’ and Religious Pluralism.” 90-105.

Edward K. Kaplan. “Abraham Heschel and Thomas Merton: Prophetic Personalities, Prophetic Friendship.” 106-115.

Shaul Magid. “Be Alone, Together: Religious Individualism, Community and the American Spirit in Emerson, Merton and Heschel.” 116-131.

Martin Kavka. “The Ends of Anxiety in Merton and Heschel.” 132-148.

Patrick F. O’Connell. “‘A Son of This Instant’: Thomas Merton and Ibn ‘Abbād of Ronda.” 149-183.

Nass Cannon. “No Mirror, No Light – Just This! Merton’s Discovery of Global Wisdom.” 184-196.

David Golemboski. “What Kind of World-Lover? Thomas Merton on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Death-of-God Theology.” 197-211.

Paul M. Pearson. “‘A Dedication to Prayer and a Dedication to Humanity’: An Interview About Thomas Merton with James Conner, OCSO.” Conducted and edited by Paul M. Pearson. 212-239.

David Joseph Belcastro. “2009 Bibliographic Review: Beneath the Habit of Holiness.” 240-259.

Daniel P. Horan, OFM. Review Symposium of Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton by Christopher Pramuk. 260-265.

Edward K. Kaplan. Review Symposium of Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton by Christopher Pramuk. 265-269.

Lynn R. Szabo. Review Symposium of Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton by Christopher Pramuk. 269-274.

Christopher Pramuk. “Author Response to Review Symposium of Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton.” 274-285.

James Conner, OCSO. Rev. of Rev. of The Rule of Saint Benedict: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 4 by Thomas Merton, edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell. 286-288.

Mark C. Meade. Rev of Compassionate Fire: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Catherine de Hueck Doherty, edited by Robert A. Wild. 288-290.

Mario De Pillis, Sr. Rev. of A Meeting of Angels: The Correspondence of Thomas Merton and Edward Deming and Faith Andrews. 290-294.

William Apel. Rev. of Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters, The Essential Collection selected and edited by William H. Shannon and Christine M. Bochen. 294-297.

Matthew Emile Vaughan. Rev. of A Book of Hours edited by Kathleen Deignan. 297-300.

Donald Grayston. Rev. of Professional Morality and Guilty Bystanding: Merton’s Conjectures and the Value of Work by Barry L. Padgett. 300-303.

Christopher Pramuk. Rev. of The Voice of the Stranger: Three Papers and a Homily from the Seventh General Meeting and Conference of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 303-306.

Christine M. Bochen. Rev. of Beneath the Mask of Holiness: Thomas Merton and the Forbidden Love Affair That Set Him Free by Mark Shaw. 306-315.

Patrick F. O’Connell. Rev. of Hidden Holiness by Michael Plekon. 315-318.

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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