The Merton Annual Volume 25 – Monasticism and Western Culture: Desert and City, a Divided Humanity

Editors: David Joseph Belcastro, Joseph Quinn Raab

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“Merton had to work long and hard to find his place in the world. His writings, photography and calligraphy were the tools with which he created a palace of nowhere – an opening into the city for the infinite Source of Life to freely flow with grace and truth. With this in mind, the reader may choose to approach the publications in this volume with attention to the relationship of desert and city, the ways in which contemplation and action collaborate, and the emergence of new forms of monasticism that seek to engage the world today. … The reader of this volume of The Merton Annual will be exploring the border between the intellect and imagination in Merton’s work and therein discover not only Merton’s vision of the world redeemed in Christ but also the location of his hermitage situated in the desert just beyond city limits.” Click here to read the full Introduction by David Belcastro.

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includes as regular features, reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished or obscurely published Merton materials, photographs and art.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

ISBN: 9781891785634
Year: 2012
Pages: 295

Fons Vitae Publishing

The Merton Annual Volume 25 – Monasticism and Western Culture: Desert and City, a Divided Humanity

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The Merton Annual Volume 25 – Monasticism and Western Culture: Desert and City, a Divided Humanity

CONTENTS

Belcastro, David Joseph. “Introduction: The Ineffable Desert and the City or What We Call Home.” 7-12.

Merton, Thomas. “Some Points from the Birmingham Non-Violence Movement.” 13-22.

Marty, Martin E. “An Interview About Thomas Merton with Dr. Martin E. Marty.” Conducted by Vaughn Fayle, OFM and edited by Joseph Quinn Raab. 23-29.

O’Connell, Patrick F. “Pilgrimage, the Prophet, Persecutions and Perfume: East with Ibn Battūta and Thomas Merton.” 30-48.

Poks, Malgorzata. “With Malinowski in the Postmodern Desert: Merton, Anthropology and the Ethnopoetics of The Geography of Lograire.” 49-73.

Gustafson, Hans. “Place, Spiritual Anthropology and Sacramentality in Thomas Merton’s Later Years.” 74-90.

Pramuk, Christopher. “‘The Street Is for Celebration’: Racial Consciousness and the Eclipse of Childhood in America’s Cities.” 91-103.

Belcastro, David Joseph. “Voices from the Desert: Merton, Camus and Milosz.” 104-112.

Collins, John P. “Two Antiheroes: Meursault and Binx Bolling Viewed through Thomas Merton’s Literary Imagination.” 113-123.

Gardner, Fiona. “You Are You: That Is the Most Important Thing – Everything Is in It Somewhere: An Analysis of the Correspondence from Thomas Merton to John Harris.” 124-131.

Whalen, Robert Weldon. “Thomas Merton and Hannah Arendt: Desert and City in Cold-War Culture.” 132-143.

Kwon, Hyeokil. “Is Desert Spirituality Viable in the Twenty-First-Century City? The Legacy of the Desert Fathers in Thomas Merton. ” 144-153.

Cannon, Nass. “Stand on Your Own Feet! Thomas Merton and the Monk without Vows or Walls.” 154-168.

Hollmann, Joshua. “Searching for Sophia: Nicholas of Cusa and Thomas Merton.” 169-176.

Horan, Daniel P., OFM. “No Spouse Is an Island: Thomas Merton’s Contribution Toward a Contemporary Spirituality of Marriage.” 177-196.

McDonald, Mary Murray. “The Soul-Rich Monk/Priest: Thomas Merton on Lectio Divina.” 197-204.

Raab, Joseph Quinn. “2011 Bibliographic Review: Pointing Fingers at the Calm Eye of the Storm.” 205-216.

Kramer, Victor A. Rev. of A Silent Action: Engagements with Thomas Merton by Rowan Williams. 217-221.

Horan, Daniel P., OFM. Rev. Thomas Merton: Twentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Living by Paul R. Dekar 221-225.

Bell, Ian. Rev. of Thomas Merton: Contemplation and Political Action by Mario I. Aguilar. 225-227.

Gardner, Fiona. Rev. of The Wounded Heart of Thomas Merton by Robert Waldron. 228-232.

Belcastro, David Joseph. Rev. of Silence Speaks: Teilhard de Chardin, Yves Congar, John Courtney Murray, and Thomas Merton by Robert Nugent. 233-235.

Grip, Robert. Rev. of Thomas Merton: A Spiritual Guide for the Twenty-First Century [CDs] by Anthony Ciorra & A Retreat with Thomas Merton [CDs] by Donald Goergen, OP. 236.

O’Connell, Patrick F. Rev. of Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of Faith [book and DVDs] by Robert Barron. 237-243.

Griffith, Kevin. Rev. of Afternoons with Emily by Paul Quenon & Belonging to Borders: A Sojourn in the Celtic Tradition by Bonnie Thurston. 243-245.

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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